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RECORD OF THE 



Men of Lafayette : 

BRIEF 

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF 
THE ALUMNI OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, 

FROM ITS ORGANIZATION TO THE PRESENT TIME, 

—BY— 

Prof. Selden J. Coffin, Ph.D., 

Secretary of the Alumni Association. 



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TO WHICH IS ADDED THE 



HISTORICAL SKETCHES 

OF THE COLLEGE, 

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Bj' Professor WILLIAM B. OWEN, A.M. 



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EASTON, PA. : 

SKINNER & FINCH, PRINTERS. 

1879. 



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Dedicated 

To ALL WHO LOVE 

Our Alma Mater. 



Copyright, 1879, 
By Selden J. Coffin. 



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INTRODUCTORY. 



This book has been prepared at the suggestion and repeated 
request of many alumni of Lafayette College, who desired some 
permanent record of the friends of their college days for occasional 
consultation. 

It has been no part of the plan to make it a volume of eulogy, 
knowing that the simple record of facts could not fail to be far 
more acceptable to those whose names are herein contained, than 
any efforts at praise, however considerately bestowed or judiciously 
distributed. For this style of writing the compiler of this work 
has no affection. 

Feeling confident that the men of Lafayette are content that 
their actions shall speak for them, this book aims only at gathering 
those items of personal history that belong to the public, and which 
all readers can peruse with satisfaction, grateful that so many 
careers of industrious and useful effort can here be brought together. 

The compilation of this work has been wholly a labor of love on 
my part, undertaken, continued and completed without thought 
of other reward than that of ministering, in some slight degree, 
to the gratification of those who may have occasion to peruse the 
volume. When I was appointed secretary of the Alumni Asso- 
ciation, twenty years ago, in the ardor of youthful enthusiasm, 
I began a scrap-book to contain printed items pertaining to the 
careers of those who had been students in Alma Mater. This, 
with its succeeding volumes — for the effort proved to be in a fruit- 
ful direction — has been the nucleus of the present publication. 
Numerous circulars and letters of inquiry, sent out during the 
past year, brought back replies, by means of which it became 



IV. INTRODUCTORV. 

practicable to put the material so gathered into the form in which 
it is here presented; and it is hoped that it will prove «p. con- 
venient hand-book for reference. 

Of course the presentation of so large a number of sketches, 
however closely condensed, gives limited room for the record of 
essential and interesting facts; so that I have had to exclude a good 
deal that would be acceptable, had it been deemed advisable to ex- 
tend the size of the volume. For this reason all mention of an- 
cestry, marriage and family connection has been omitted, except 
where this had relation to those who held official position in the 
College. 

In the absence of any general catalogue the greatest task that 
confronted me was the proper classification of the early students 
and the preparation of a perfect roll. In the earlier period 
of the history of the College, catalogues containing the names of 
students, and their respective classes, were issued only occasionally ; 
all the other records to which I have had access were of little aid 
in this matter, and but for the use of the Minutes of the Literary 
Societies, and their lists of membership, this most necessary branch 
of the work would have been extremely imperfect. Had it not 
been for this difficulty, I should have decidedly preferred some 
mode of arrangement that would not have divided into two 
separate portions those who were classmates. The statements on 
pages 303-5, and 329-30*, show how nearly the roll has been per- 
fected ; four names appear to be still wanting from the total of 
2400 who have been matriculated. 

The deceased are designated by prefixing a star (*) to their 
names. In allusions to the church and the denominations of min- 
isters, Presbyterian is to be understood where no other denomina- 
tion is mentioned. In like manner Pennsylvania is to be under- 
stood where no State is named. In the sketches of the graduates, 

*By correcting the omission noted at the foot of page 330, the entire number of matriculates is 
2400 ; and by inserting the name of Rev. Thomas Wilson, page 329, the number unknown, On 
page 305, is reduced to four. 



INTRODUCTORY. V. 

pages 9-123, the date of their entering college is given only when 
they a»e known to have joined their class at some other time than 
the beginning of the course ; in the case of the Former Students, 
however, it has been the intention to state both the dates of entrance 
and departure. 

For many items of personal interest, the reader is indebted to 
the columns of the Lafayette College Journal, a monthly periodical 
issued by the undergraduates, and conducted by them for some 
years past with creditable taste and energy. 

All readers will unite in hearty appreciation of the great value 
and interest of the Historical Sketches of the College, appended 
to this volume, prepared by Professor Owen in 1876, at the request 
of the United States Bureau of Education, and solicited for publi- 
cation by a formal vote of the Alumni Association. 

I shall be glad to receive corrections and additions, knowing 
that in a work of this kind no amount of care will prevent the ex- 
istence of numerous imperfections. 

I cannot close without expressing my hearty sense of great obli- 
gation to the many kind friends who have so cheerfully aided me, 
in many ways, in preparing this contribution to the interests of 

Alma Mater. 

S. J. C. 

Lafayette College, May jot k, iSyg. 



CONTENTS. 



PAGB 

Introductory 3 

Works of Reference 6 

Corrections 8 

Biographical Sketches of the Graduates, 1836-1879 9 

The Alumni Association 124 

Note on the Founders of the Literary Societies 126 

Biographical Sketches of the Former Students, arranged according to 

year of entrance, 1832-1850 125 

Continued according to Classes, 1854-1879 205 

Statistics : Professional Occupations of the Alumni, Professional Pur- 
suits by Periods and by Percentage; Public Positions, Educational, 
Foreign Missionaries ; Literary Pursuits, Degrees, Military Service, 

Deceased, Total Number of Matriculates . . . . ' 302 

Alphabetical Index to the Graduates 311 

Alphabetical Index to the Former Students 315 

Appendix : Sketches received after the printing of the foregoing pages . . 323 

Sketches of Members of the Faculty 331 

Dedication of Pardee Hall 348 

PROF. OWEN'S HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF LAFAYETTE 

COLLEGE. 

Additional Pages. 

Extract from the Minutes of the Trustees 2 

Early History of the College, Views of the Founders, Charter 3 

Organization, Election of President Junkin, Permanent Site 8 

The College Edifice, Literary Societies, Early Features of the College . . 12 

Colleagues of Dr. Junkin, Successive Presidents 19 

President Cattell and the Present Faculty, Grounds, New Buildings, Funds . 27 

Library, Curriculum of Study, Scientific Collections 41 

Present Organization and Courses of Study, Study of English 46 

Alumni Association and Literary, Scientific and Religious Societies ... 60 

Commencement Orators, and Preachers before the Brainerd Society ... 65 

Catalogue of Trustees and Members of the Faculty 66 

ILLUSTRATIONS. 

Portrait of Rev. Wm. C. Cattell, D.D., LL.D Frontispiece 

Portrait of Rev. George Junkin, D.D., LL.D ; .... page 125 

Portrait of Professor James H. Coffin, LL.D " 331 

Photo Lithograph View of Pardee Hall '' 351 



WORKS OF REFERENCE. 



The author desires to acknowledge his indebtedness for valuable 
aid derived from the following sources: 
Allibone's Dictionary of Authors. 
Appleton's New American Cyclopedia. 
Bates' Military History of Pennsylvania. 
Biographical Annals of New Jersey. 
Biographical Sketches of Eminent Pennsylvanians. 
Biography of President Junkin. 
Carter's History of the Presbytery of Baltimore. 
Clyde's History and Reminiscences of the Irish Settlement. 
Cyclopedia of Methodism. •'^■ 

Durfee's Biographical Annals of Williams College. 
Ege's History of Pennsylvania. 
General Catalogues of Medical Colleges, of Theological Seminaries and of the 

United States Military and Naval Academies. 
Hetrich and Nevin's History of the Class of 1875. 
History of Jefferson College; Joseph Smith, D.D., 1857. 
History of Northampton County, 1876. 
Index Volume of the Princeton Review, 1825-68. 
Johnson's Cyclopedia. 

Junkin's History of the Presbytery of Newton. 
Lafayette College Journal, 
Lanman's Dictionary of Congress. 
Lawyers of the United States. 
Lee's Address, Commemorative of the Services of the Alumni of Lafayette in the 

War for the Union. 
Memorial of the Rev. William D. Howard, D.D. 
Minutes of the Presbyterian General Assembly. 
Monographs of the Alumni. 
Physicians of Union County, New Jersey. 
Physicians and Surgeons of the United States. 
Ramsey's Spiritual Kingdom. 
Smull's Legislative Handbook of Pennsylvania. 
Sprague's Annals of the American Pulpit. 
Wickersham's Reports ; Superintendent of Public Instruction. 
Wilson's Presbyterian Historical Almanac. 



CORRECTIONS, 



To the revisions in the Appendix, page 323, the following cor- 
rections are to be added : 

Page 18. *Henry Edgar Keene, A.M., lawyer; was the 
great grandson of John Lukens, the Surveyor General of Penn- 
sylvania from 1761 to 1789. He was born at Towanda, in 1818. 
After graduation he studied law in the office of Judge Reed at 
Carlisle; received the degree of LL.B., from Dickinson College, 
and practiced in Carlisle from 1846 to 1849, when he removed to 
Philadelphia, where, on motion of Hon. Garrick Mallery, he was 
admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of Penns^dvania. Here 
he was engaged until his death, June 24, 1875. He was a lawyer 
of high tone and integrit^^ 

Page 108. Russell B. Rice, C.E., of '76, is a law-student 
at Mansfield, Ohio. 

Page 205. Erase the star (*; from the name of Dr. Thomas 
J. P. Devor. 

Page 246. Erase the star from the name of Stroud H. Jackson. 

Page 267. Walter I. Cook, Ti-enton, N. J., was born in 
Trenton, October 19, 1854; is now engaged in banking at No. 6 
State street. 

Page 305. Line 23. For institutions read instructions. 

Page 305. Line 35. For average read aggregate. 

Page 307. Add to the Members of Congress, Hon. B. M. 
Boyer. 

Page 332. Add to the notice of Rev. Dr. Ebenezer T. 
Baird. — Born near Pittsburg, Pa., Sept. 17, 1821. He became 
a member of the Maryland bar in 1844, but never practiced except 
in the ecclesiastical courts. He was Principal of the Vigo Insti- 
tute, at Terre Haute, 1848-9; President of Washington College, 
Tennessee, 1850-2; 1856-'66, pastor in Mississippi; 1866-''77, 
Secretary of Publication, and also 1866-'74, Secretary of Educa- 
tion of the Presbyterian Church, South. He received the degree 
of A.M. from Marshall College, Pa., in 1847, and D.D. from 
Washington College, Tennessee, in 1856. He has been a member 
of the General Assembly five sessions. 



Sketches of the Alumni, 



CLASS OF 1836. 

The following persons composed the first class that was grad- 
uated from Lafa3'ette College, September 21, 1836 : 

George W. Kidd, A. M,, Houston^ Texas. — Born at Port 
Deposit, Md. ; entered Sophomore year ; engaged in mercantile 
pursuits in St. Louis and the Western States ; since 1875, Sec- 
retary of the Houston Board of Trade and Cotton Exchange. 
Office of Daily Telegraph, 

David Moore, A. M., Hanover, Jefferson Co., Indiana. — Born 
near Oxford, May 23, 1814 ; entered college October, 1832, and 
was for about one year, during the course, engaged in teaching 5 
graduated with Latin Salutatory' ; Adjunct Professor of Ancient 
languages, and Principal of tlie Preparatory Department in Lafaj'- 
ette, from October, '36, to January, ^39 ; from 1839-46, was 
Deputy Superintendent of Common Schools of Pennsylvania, at 
Harrisburg ; studied law in Harrisburg, and was there admitted 
to the Bar, August 22, 1844; from 1846 to 1877, taught, at 
Salem, Mississippi, eight years ; Clear Spring, Indiana, twelve 
years ; Hopewell, Indiana, five years ; Williamsburg, Indiana, 
four 3'ears ; he now resides on a farm near Hanover College. 

*Rev. James Beverlin Ramsey, D.D. — Born in Cecil 
Co., Maryland, May 20, 1814; Valedictorian; entered Prince- 
ton Theological Seminar^' in 1836, and remained four years. 
The eminent linguist. Dr. J. Addison Alexander, said that when 
Dr. Ramsey left the Seminar}^ he was qualified to teach any class 
in the institution ; ordained and installed pastor of the Presb}^- 
terian church at West Farms, New York, 1841 ; in 1846 he be- 



10 TJic Men of Lafayette. 

came missionary to the Choctaw Indians, and took charge of the 
S}Dencer Academy, remaining over three years ; then was preach- 
ing and teaching until '54, when he was installed pastor of New 
Monmouth church, Ya.; from '58 to '70 he was pastor of First 
Presbyterian church, Lynchburg, Virginia, where he died July 
23, 18tl; author of Questions on Bible Doctrine, Richmond, Va., 
186'7, pp. 210, and The Spiritual Kingdom, Richmond, Va., 18T3, 
pp. 518, an elaborate posthumous work, which contains his full 
memoir, 

Nathaniel Barratt Smithers, LL.D., Borer^ Delaware. — 
Lawyer; born at Dover, October 8, 1818; entered Sophomore, 
second term ; graduated with English Salutator}- ; studied at 
the Carlisle Law School, 1837-40; admitted to the Bar at Car- 
lisle, 1840, and at Dover. Delaware. April, 1841, where he has 
practiced since; Clerk of the House of 'Representatives, Dela- 
ware, 1845-7 ; Secretary of State of Delaware, 1863; member 
of Congress, 1863-5; Delegate to AVhig National Convention of 
1848, and to Republican National Conventions of 1860-4-8; 
member of Republican National Committee, 1860-8; President 
of First National ^Bank of Dover: LL. D. from Lafayette on 
Founder's Daj'^, 1878; author of Translations of Latin Hymns 
of the Middle Ages, 2 vols., 8vo., 1877 : President of the Alumni 
Association since 1878. 

CLASS OF 1837. 

Rev. Samuel Dickey, A.M., Oxford. — Born in Chester 
county, 1818; entered Preparatory Department in September, 
'32; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '40; pastor 
of LTiiion church, Lancaster ; taught at Oxford ; Trustee of 
Lincoln LTniversity ; now President of Octorara National Bank. 

Rev. Andrew Tully, A.M., Portland. — Born at Redden, 
Roxburgshire, Scotland, May 30, 1812 ; in Preparatory^ Depart- 
ment and College, '32-7 ; Valedictorian ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, '40 ; ordained October 21, '40; pastor at 
Lower Mount Bethel, thirteen j^ears ; Harmony, N. J., eight 
years ; stated supply at Morrisville, five years ; Beemerville, N. 
J., eight years; and since '73 at Portland. His son, A. C. Tully, 
was in the class of '65. 



Aliiijini — Class of i8jy. W 

Rev. James Washington Wood, A.M., AUentown.—Y^oxw in 
Florida, Orange Co., New York, October 25, 1818 ; prepared 
for college at Middletown and Goshen; entere<l in December, 
1833; Latin Salutatorian ; graduated at Union Tlieological 
Seminar}-, '40 ; licensed by Hudson Presb^'teiy, September 11, 
'39 ; ordained and installed at Deckertown, Sussex Co., New- 
Jersey, December 11, ''39, where he remained until '45 ; pastor at 
Chester, Orange Co., N. Y., '45 to '62 ; travelling and seeking 
health '62-4; pastor at Allentown since 'G5; has preached the 
gospel between the limits of Bismark, Dakotah, and Aboo Seir, in 
Nubia ; two of his sons entered Lafayette ; author of a chro- 
nological chart ; Alumni Orator 1843 and 1859; orator before 
the Literary Societies in '65, on Ancient Civilization on the Nile. 

CLASS OF 1838. 

*Rev. David Coulter, D.D. — Born in Sussex Co., Dela- 
ware, November 8, 1808 ; entered Preparatory Department in 
April, '33 ; Valedictorian; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '41 ; licensed to preach April 28, '41, and spent his 
whole ministerial life in Missouri, chiefly at Round Prairie, 
Rocheport, Columbia, and Liberty ; died at Liberty, Missouri, 
August, S2,'78. "Greatly esteemed in every community in which 
he lived." ^ 

Ben.jamin F. Stem, A.M., Ph. D., Ea^ton. — Yxom Lehigh 
township; born 1815; Latin Salutatorian ; admitted to Bar at 
Easton, November 16, '41, but never practiced ; Principal of 
Academies at Stewartsville, N. J., Belvidere, Reading, Frede- 
ricksburg, Va., four 3^ears, and since "10 in Easton ; clerk in LT. 
S. Treasury Department, '63-"70 ; editor Easton Free Press four 
years ; received degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Lafayette 
in 'n. His two sons entered Lafa3'ette. 

CLASS OF 1839. 

* Benjamin F. Baskin, A.M. — Lawyer ; from Selinsgrove ; 
entered Freshman, second term ; died earh', at Mercer, Pa. 

Rev. John H. Brakeley, A.M., Ph. D., Bordentown^ N. 
J. — Born in Harmony, Warren Co., New Jersey, November 
3, 1816 ; entered Preparatory Department, '33; taught in Mary- 
land three years; Professor of Languages and Natural Science 



lieon$<e«i bv Mt?thodi§t Coi^foivnee iti "42; PriweiiKal IViuungKw 

:^ s gutni tho Prv^idoucy of it in *T5 : PivsifloiU of tho Xstional 
Local Prxjachorst' A$*ooiatioiu '61 ; rtetvivTixl l>octor of Tbilosophy 
frt>m I.afe\\^tto in *T1 : Kiitomolosri#l : Pn\jiiiUM\t of tho Xow 
Jersey CrauK^rry and Fruit liu>wor^' Associations: Almnnt 
Orator in '46. 

*Jamks Armstroxo PrxLAi*. A.M — l-awyor: K>rn in Cm«- 
Ivrland Co.. IS15; pnepattn^ for ctUlcgx* at HanoYcr* Indiana ; 
adnnttiHi to the Bar at Kaston. XovciwWr 16, '41 ; was District 
Attorney : also Collector on IVlaware Division of IVnusyh-juna 
Canal ; and eilitor of Easton Sit»tin<tf : dieil in Kaston OctoWr 
10, '51. 

Hkv. Jamks Kkrovsox KKNNKin\ l>.n., 0A«»M6«*r.^M»>;. — Grad- 
uaiovl at Priutvton Theologic^d Seminary. '4«> : oixlaini^i at IVr- 
irick. December li!. '4S ; pivachoil at Fayetteville. \>l"4: {^\stor 
at Dickinson, ■'SfK-Q : taught at Chambei^bni^, '5^''64 *. and tawght 
from '69 ; he receiveil the desrnv of Doctor of Divinity ft\>m La- 
fayette in IST:J : Pivfessor of liivok in Wilson i\>Uejiv since .Inly 
5, 'to. His son, Daniel M. KoniuHly. irnuluated in 'T.-it. 

Rkv. James 2s. Lkwis. A. M.. .I/j^/om, Florida, — Horn at 
Wyalusing. T>nidfoi\l Co . Fennsylvania : pivachevl at Wytheville, 
Virginia, for many veal's. IS;^4 to lS6o, auvi of ivcetU yeai^s at 
Milton: author of varions ti^cts publislunl l\v the rroslni«MMat> 
Committee, at Richmond, Va. 

*,1amks Ci.YDK McKissuK. A.M.— l>orn in Lancaster Co.. 
Deeenil>er 21, 181T : in niihxxui business at Columbia, wheiv he 
died January 20, '53. 

William AvGUSTUS Toutku, 1.1,. P.. /Vji7rt«?« //♦Am.— Lawyer; 
son of Gov. David IL Porter; he was lH>rn in Hnntiiig-tlon 
Co.. May ;?4. IS:21 ; entered Sophomoiv class in 18;>6; Latin Saluta- 
torian ; admitted to the Bar in Kaston. April '2;'. 'i-2, to the Uar 
in Philadelphia . April 26. "42 ; District Atton\o\- of Vlulndolphia, 
Shorit!*. '43, and City Solicitor, '56 ; Judgv of Supromo t\nirt of 
Pennsylvania, '58 ; a Judge of the Court of .Uabmna Claims at 
Washington. '74-5 (i; LL. D. from Jolfcrson, "Tl. [Author of 



/]//(!///// ( /aw (i/ i^](j. l.'i 

A(l(licH;-t lu'l'oiw! t.lic I/it,ci!iry Soficl.icM ni fijifMycltc, IH42, )*|). 'M\ ; 
KHHiiy <»ii tln' li.'ivv |»cit, Milling (f> l.lic Sliciiir'H ()fllc(!, 1845 ; AfldreHH 
lK!fV)r(! Mm! Law A(;!i(|ciriy of I'liibidclplii!!, cmi ,Vloifilil,y (»!' t.lic Ji!i,w, 
IH40; liifc of (.'liicC .JiiHli(!c (riliwou, IS^f., pp. 150; cfnitribiiUM' 
to A iiHTic.iiii Ijmw ]VI,'if.f!i/,i(M' ;iihI I/;i,w .\i>uii\u\.~ Allihone^i^ IHc- 
lioiKini of Aiit/itirn. I 

l»Kv . John S.maM/KV, A. M., Watu-rbj^ / (/via. ~ V torn \'><>\\ui\ 
l»rool<, New .IciHcy ; horn IHIU; full I'lfipiicatoi-y fiiifl (/'oll<(_'c 
(,'oiirsc, \H'.','2 '.) ; \'alc(lif:t,ori!iii ; st.iidicil n,l, l'iiiic<:t,oii 'I'licoloti;!':;'! 
Sciiiiii.'iry (.woycfU'H ; ordained (is an (•vanf.^cliHt, NovrrriFtcr 12, '44 ; 
prcjK'licfl :uid tiiii^lit, :it- Mnnf;y, I'dinsylvania, '4.'{ ; l>iitl(;r, 'Of) ; 
prc'iclicd lit. W.'ivcrly, Iowa. 'r)S -Of; ; Im; rcwidcH a,t Wavcily, lion- 
orMl)l\ icliicd (Voni Uic :i(;l.i\c dtiUcK of Uic rriiniHtry. 

I'iDVVAiM) I''. S'l'KWAirr, A.M., AV/h/o//. — IJorn in Kawton, October' 
Id, ISH); (intcr-c-d Sophornor'<! ; Htiidicd la,w in ilrc ofllce of Ilorr. 
JamcH M. I'ortcr, and waH a.dmitt(;d tf) tiro Bar iir '42 ; ontorod 
Princeton 'IMi(!ological Seminary, and was liccinHod by rrcMbytory 
of Newton in '45 ; gave U)) [>rofeHHional life on a.(;count of failure 
of health, arrd engaged in wholeHal(! rner-eantile biiHineHH ; waH 
connected witir the; CiiHtom Hoiihc in New York ; edited the 
Soni(!rH(rt UvioniM for- nevcral years; anr] is rrow corrnected with 
the Kirst Nrrtional Mairk ; he was the Ahrrnrri Orator- irr '54 ; haH 
been a nieniber of tire Kanton Hchool Hoard rnori; thatr twctrty 
yearH, arrd for Hoine time its Prcsidont ; also a member of the 
A rrrericirri I'hilob)gical Sofiiety ; irr '54 he wa^ the candi'late for 
(y'orrgrcHH MgjrirrHt .lirdge Packer, in the Elcverrth I'errrrHyl vairiM 
DiHtrict, receivirrg the votcH of" the iiriifcil oppoHiMf>ii to the 
KansaH-Ncibr'aHka bill. 

CLASS OF 184-0. 
Samijki, VV. I'.Aiii'.Ki!., A.M., »S7. /jOuih^ Mo. — ll(; and Willinm 
I']. Maibcir' (He<! f'^IIowirrg sketch) wei'C Horrn f;r Johrr IJaiirer, of 
('olriurbia, \vlrer'(! Ire was born, in 1824 ; (!nt(!r'(;d .Sophomore filass ; 
in mer'cantih; huHiircHH, irr l'hila,(h;lphia, 1840-8; in Baltimore, 
1848-57; their residcid for a few years at Davenport, Iowa, and 
since in St. fiouis, wliere he is cashier and manager of the Collier 
(istate; he was ehicted a iiding elder in the l'r(!sbyt(!rian church 
whihr irr l'altimore,a,nfl holds the same office in the WjrJnut street 
(;hiirclr (I'ev. Dr, J. If. IJrookes), in St. TiOuis. 



14 The Men of Lcifayette, 

William E. Barber, A.M., Wed Cheater. — Law3-er ; born at 
Columbia, April 21, 1822; entered Sophomore class; graduated 
with the English salutatory and an oration on Genius; studied 
law at Gettysburg, under U. S. Senator James Cooper, and was 
admitted to the bar at Adams and Lancaster counties in 1844, 
and Chester county, January, '46; in 1843 he was one of the 
three master orators, and in 184T the Alumni orator ; on account 
of impaired health he left the bar in '48 and engaged in mercan- 
tile business until '5T ; when, at Davenport, he re-commenced 
practice, and in '59 returned to West Chester ; he has filled- vari- 
ous offices in the church and community, and was Assessor of 
Internal Revenue for the Seventli Pennsylvania District from 
'68 until the office was abolished by the Act of 1813 ; his essay 
on Political Organization received the first prize of |500, offered 
by the Union League of Philadelphia, in 1868. 

CoL. William Dorris, A.M., Huntingdon. — Lawyer ; born at 
Huntingdon, September 10,1822; entered Sophomore; studied 
law and was admitted to the Bar at Huntingdon in August, '43, 
where he has since remained in constant practice ; Counsel to the 
Pennsylvania Railroad ; Colonel of the Third Regiment of Penn- 
sylvania Militia in '62 ; Trustee of Lafayette since '65. His two 
sons were in the classes of "14 and "18. 

Rev. Charles Elliott, D.D., Chicago, Illinois. — Born at 
Roxburgshire, Scotland ; entered as a Preparatory student in '34 ; 
studied Theology at Princeton, '40-1 ; Teacher and Professor in 
Western University of Pennsylvania at Pittsburgh ; Professor of 
Greek Literature and Logic at Miami University, '49-63 ; and 
since '63 Professor in Theological Seminary of the Northwest at 
Chicago; received degree of D.D. from Ohio University at 
Athens ; author of a Treatise on the Sabbath ; Part of the 
Minor Prophets, translated from Kleinert, in Lange ; and a Trea- 
tise on Inspiration, published by Clarke & Co., Edinburg, 1878; 
Alumni Orator in '55 — " Liberty, a Moral Development ;" Orator 
before the Literary Societies in '70. 

Rev. William Henry Green. D.D., Princeton, N. J. — 
Born at Groveville, N. J., January 27, 1825 ; entered Freshman, 
second term ; tutor in Lafayette '41-42, and adjunct professor 
of Mathematics '43-4 ; master orator in '43 ; graduated at Prince- 



Aliinud — Class af 18^0. 15 

ton Theological Seminary; oidained by Presbytery of New 
Brunswick, May 24, '48 ; assistant instructor in Hebrew in 
Princeton Tiieological Seminary, '46-9 ; pastor of Central Presby- 
terian cliurcli in Pliiladelphia, '49-51 ; since '51 lie has been Pro- 
fessor of Oriental and Old Testament Literature in Princeton 
Seminary. Author of Hebrew Grammar ; Chrestomathj' ; the 
Pentateuch Vindicated ; and Argument of the Book of Job Un- 
folded. Received D. D. from College of New Jersey in '57 and 
LL. D from Rutgers in '73; Alumni Orator in 1853, and deliver- 
ed an oration on " The Value of Physical Science in the Work 
of Education," upon the laying of the corner-stone of Jenks Hall, 
July 25, 1865. 

*JosEPH JuNKiN, A.M — Son of President Junkin ; pursued 
full course; tutor in Lafaj^ette, 1844-6 ; teachei- at Edgehill 
School, Princeton ; died of consumption at Marianna, Florida, 
April 3, '49, aged 25. 

*Rev. John Marshall Lowrie, D.D. — Born in Pittsburg ; 
studied at Princeton Theological Seminary nearly three years ; 
licensed April 27, 1842 ; ordained at Blairstown, N. J., Oc- 
tober 18, '43, where he preached two 3^ears ; then atWellsville, 
Ohio, '46 ; Lancaster, Ohio, '50 ; and Fort Wayne, Ind., where 
he died, September 26, '67, aged 50 ; he was the author of 
"Esther and Her Times," and of several other religious works; 
he received D. D. at Miami University in 1858. 

Samuel McCarragher, A.M., Wilkes-Barre. — Lawyer ; born 
at Princeton, N. J., November 10, 1818; admitted to the bar at 
Wilkes-Barre, November 7, '42; district attorney '44-7 ; clerk 
of courts of Luzerne county '49-'52. 

♦Nathaniel Reeves Newkirk, A.M., M.I). — Born in Pitts- 
grove, N. J., July 22, 1817 ; graduated at Medical Department 
of University of Pennsylvania in 1843 ; practiced medicine at 
Pittsgrove '44-'51 ; after '51 at Greenwich, and in his closing 
years at Bridgeton, where he died, November 10, 1866. 

Rev. Thomas Conrad Porter, D.D., Easton. — Born at Alex- 
andria, Pa., January 22,1822; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '43 ; master orator in '43 ; missionary of the Presby- 
terian Board in Georgia, '46 ; ordained pastor of the Second 



16 Tlic Men of Lafayette. 

German Reformeol Church, Reading, Xoveraber 14, '48. I'rofes- 
sor of Natural Sciences in Marshall College, and in Franklin and 
Marshall College, 1849-66, and Professor of Botan}^ and Zoology 
in Lafa3'ette since 1866; and pastor of the Third Street Re- 
formed Church since September, 18*71 ; his son, John Porter, 
graduated in 'T6. He was one of the committee to frame the 
Order of Worship now used in the Reformed Church in the U. S.; 
he received the degree of D.D. from Rutgers in '65 ; first Presi- 
dent of the Linnean Society of Lancaster county ; gatherer of 
an extensive herbarium, now owned b}^ Lafayette College; a cor- 
responding member of the American Philosophical Society, and 
of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. He is the 
author of Hermann and Dorothea, from the German of Goethe, 
1854, 168 pp. 16mo ; Life and Times of Ulric Zwingli, from the 
Gei'man of J. J. Hottinger, 1856, 12mo; and of several lyric 
poems in Schaff's Christ in Song; contributor to Herzog's Encj'- 
clopedia, 1856, et seq., and to'the Mercersburg Quarterly Review; 
translator of Schaff's Life of St. Augustine, New York and 
London, 1854, 12mo. 150 pp.; author of "Flora, of Colorado," 
U. S. Government Press, 1874, 8vo. pp. 180, and other papers in 
Hayden's Surve}^ ; seventeen species of the flowering plants of 
the U. S., and a number of varieties, have been described and 
named by him ; several have been named for him, among them, 
Desmatodon Porteri^ James, discovered on the rocks of College 
Hill, and figured in Sullivant's Second Supplement. 

Augustus G. Richey, A.M., IVenton, N.J. — Lawyer; born at 
Asbury, N. J., March 11, 1819; entered Preparatory Department 
in 1834; studied law with Col. James N. Reading, of Fleming- 
ton, and was there admitted to the bar in February, '44, and 
three j-ears later was licensed as a counsellor, and located at As- 
bury; practiced at Asbury, 1844-56, and since at Trenton ; State 
Senator, '64-6 ; director of several banking, gas and railroad 
companies; for some years President of New Jersey State Tem- 
perance Society ; Trustee of Lafayette since 1816. [For full 
sketch see Biographical Annals of New Jersey.] 

CLASS OF 184-1. 

Rev. Philander Camp, A.M., Fall Brook. — From Camptown, 
Bradford county ; studied Theology three j^ears, and graduated 
at Union Theological Seminaiy, Virginia, 1846, and licensed by 



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Presbytery of West Hanover, Va.; preached at Canton, Pa., 
'54-6 ; taught at McAlisterville, '57-8 ; preached at Horicon, 
Wis., '59-'61 ; Myersburg, 'Gl ; Andover and Gainesville, N. Y.; 
Fall Brook, since '73. 

Rev. Thomas Elcock, A.M., Van Wert^ Ohio.—¥rom York 
county, Pa.; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, 1844; 
received as a candidate, October, '41 ; licensed, April, '43 ; dis- 
missed to Presb3^tery of Sidney, Ohio, March, '45 ; now pastor of 
Van Wert. 

*Rev. John Farquhar, A.M.--Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Sep- 
tember 20, 1821 ; his father came to America in 1833, and located in 
Easton, that he might here educate his son, and by his hands was 
hewn the first stone laid in the foundation of what is now known 
as South College ; the son studied law one year, and then entered 
Princeton Theological Seminary, and there graduated in '46 ; or- 
dained and installed pastor of the Presbyterian church, Ijower 
Chanceford, York county. Pa., October, '46, where he preached 
until his death, September 18, 1866 ; he was Moderator of the 
Synod of Philadelphia ; two of his sons entered Lafayette. 

*Rev. Peter Badeau Heroy, A.M. — Of Huguenot origin ; 
born at Mahopac Falls, Putnam county, N. Y., July 16, 1815 ; 
entered Sophomore ; graduated |at Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, '45 ; preached at Delhi, N. Y., '45-'50 ; Highland Falls, 
Orange county, N. Y., '50-'56 ; Bridgeton, N. J., July, '56 to 
May, '57 ; pastor at Bedford, N.Y., from May, '57 until his death, 
October 16, '78, aged 62 ; in 1872 he had the pleasure of dedi- 
cating his new church, costing $50,000, Rev. Dr. Austin Craig, 
class of '46, assisting. [See Heroy's History of the Bedford 
Church, 1874.] 

*James McKeen, A.m. — Lawyer ; born in Ballymena, Ireland. 
His father, the late Thomas McKeen, early removed to South 
Easton. After graduating he studied law with the Hon. James 
M. Porter, and was admitted to the bar at Easton, April 16, 
1844 ; he held the office of Prothonotary of Carbon county at 
Mauch Chunk, where, on the outbreak of hostilities with Mexico, 
he joined Major Klotz's company, became Lieutenant and Regi- 
mental Quartermaster; was taken sick at the siege of Pueblo, in 
1847, and died after a brief illness. 



18 TJic Mai of Lafayette. 

*Ja3IES Snodgrass, a.m. — Born in East Hanover township, 
Dauphin count}^, Pa.; valedictorian ; lawj^er ; admitted to bar of 
Northampton county, August 25, 1843, and to Lehigh county; 
located at Harrisburg ; died at Great Bend, Ind., in 1854 ; his 
younger brother, Robert Snodgi-ass, Esq., of Harrisburg, gradu- 
ated in '57. 

CLASS OF 1842. 

*George Washington Baskin, A.M., M.D. — From Selins- 
grove ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '46; died early 
at Mercer, Pa. 

*Rev, Ninian Bannatyne, A.m. — Born in Isle of Bute, 
Scotland ; entered Sophomore ; tutor, 1843 ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '45 ; associate pastor of F 
street church, Washington, D. C, where he died in 1849 ; a mural 
tablet, at the right of the pulpit of the church commemorates the 
esteem in which he was held by the congregation. 

Athanasius John Collyrus. — A native of Greece ; a room- 
mate of Mr. Bannatyne ; some years after graduating he returned 
to the land of his birth, and is reported to be engaged in teach- 
ing. 

Rev. Darwin Cook, A.M., Merryall^ Bradford Co.— Born in 
Pennsylvania; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '45 ; 
licensed to preach, April 17, '44; ordained, February, '46, at 
Conyngham; preached six years in the Luzerne coal region, then 
removed to Troy ; to Rome, December, '50 ; to Merryall, April, 
1858; has held 10,000 religious services; prepared thirty-seven 
young men for college ; thirteen of whom have entered the min- 
istr}'^ ; one being his son, Rev. M. L. Cook, class of 1873. 

*Henry Edgar Keene, A.M. — Lawyer; from Philadelphia, 
where he practiced until his death, in June, 1875. 

*Rev. James Green Moore, A.M. — Born near Johnsonsburg, 
N. J., November 30, 1813; several years in preparatory depart- 
ment and four in college ; studied tlieology at Princeton Tiieo- 
logical Seminary ; licensed b}- Presbytery of Newton, and ordained 
by Luzerne Presbytei'}', 1845 ; and installed Pastor of church at 
Beaver Meadow, Pa.; preached at Montague, N. J., until '48 ; 
taught at Blairstown, N. J., and Croton Falls, N, Y.; in '53 he 



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moved west to regain his health, but died at his residence, near 
Philadelphia, Marion county, Mo., May 28, '58. 

*RoBERT Newton, A.M., M.D. — From Philadelphia; entered 
Sophomore ; tutor, 1843-4 ; graduated at Medical Department of 
University of Pa., '45 ; surgeon in U.S. army in Mexican war, 
and on his return died of 3'ellow fever in New Orleans in 1848. 
He was a brother of John Newton, D.D., the eminent Pi-esbyterian 
missionary in India. Fearlessness was a marked trait in his 
character. Near the close of the war with Mexico he was detailed 
to accompany a storming party ; when the assault and rusli 
began, he threw aside his surgical case, and was soon at the head 
of the column, and among the first over the battlements. General 
Scott, in his dispatches, made special mention of Surgeon New- 
ton's daring. 

*Alexander McDonald Sterrett. — Born at Columbia Fur- 
nace, Shenandoah c*)unty, Va., May 10, 1821 ; prepared at Wood- 
stock Academy, Va.; in Model School and College, 183'7-'43 ; 
soon after his admission to the bar, ill health compelled him to 
relinquish law ; he was the Whig candidate for Congress, and 
edited a newspaper at Parkersburg,West Virginia, until his death, 
of consumption, January 31, 1858. 

Rev. Joseph Stevens, A.M., Jersey Shore. — Born in Phila- 
delphia, October 26, 1817; was tutor one year, and then at 
Princeton Theological Seminary two years, where he graduated ; 
licensed to preach in 1845 ; ordained as an Evangelist by Presby- 
tery of Mississippi in 1847; Professor of Mathematics in Onk- 
land College, Miss., 1845-'51 ; since '51, pastor at Jersey Shore ; 
he has published nine pamphlet sermons and discussions ; his son 
is in the class of 1882. 

Charles K. Wagner, A.M., M.D., New York City. — From 
Easton ; entered Junior ; graduated at Medical Department of 
University of Pennsylvania, '48 ; for many years past a merchant 
at 76 Murray street, N. Y. 

CLASS OF 1S4-3. 

*Edgar Janvier, A.M., M.D. — Son of the Rev. Dr. George 
W. Janvier, of Pittsgrove, N. J.; graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of UniA^ersity of Pennsylvania, '47 ; practiced at Port Rich- 



20 Tlic Men of Lafayette, 

mond, Philadelphia, where he died December 26, 1877; the 
names of three of his brothers occur as students in the following 
pages. 

Rev. Cornelius Rutser Lane, A.M., Ph.D., Chamber sburg, — 
Born in New Jersey ; Salutatorian ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, '46 ; licensed April 28, '47 ; dismissed to 
Presbytery of Luzerne, April, '48 ; ordained Evangelist, Novem- 
ber 30, '48; preached at Tunkhannock, '48; Warren, '52 ; pastor 
at Tunkhannock, '53- '70 ; Superintendent of Schools in Wyoming 
county ; Professor in Wilson College, '70-'77 ; received the de- 
gree of Doctor of Philosophy Irom Lafayette. 

*Charles Merrill. — Law3'er ; born at New Berlin, Pa., 
March 17, 1824; admitted to the bar, December, '45 ; was deputy 
attorney of Snyder county; private 51st Pa. Infantry; died at 
New Berlin, from disease contracted in the war, December 25, 
1865; "a lawyer of rare ability and power."* 

Rev. Thomas Thomas, A.M., Sfevensville, Bradford Go. — 
Born in Cardiganshire, South Wales, June 14, 1812; studied two 
years at Princeton Theological Seminary ; licensed in '45 ; or- 
dained as an Evangelist, September 1, !47 : preached at Neath, 
'45 to '50 ; at Orwell, Friendsville and Rome, '50 to '63 ; since 
'63, at Rushville and Stevensville ; his son took an honor at La- 
fayette in '75 ; and a daughter is a missionary in Japan. 

*Mahlon Yardley, A.m. — Lawyer; born at Yardleyville, 
Bucks county. Pa., February 24, 1824 ; studied law with Hon. 
Henry D. Maxwell, and admitted to the bar of Easton, Novem- 
ber 21, '45 ; admitted to the bar at DojMestown, February 2, '46; 
member of Pennsylvania Senate, '58~'61 ; Lieutenant 104th Pa. 
Infantr}', '61-2 ; Captain and Provost Marshal U. S. Volunteers; 
Judge Advocate in court-martial in Washington, '61-2; Internal 
Revenue Collector for Fifth District of Pennsylvania, '69~'73 ; 
died at his home, in Doylestown, June 23, '73. 

CLASS OF 184-4-. 

Charles Brodhead, A.M., Bethlehem. — Lawyer; born in 
Conyngham, Luzerne county ; studied law with Senator Richard 
Brodhead, and for one year at the Law Institute of David Hoft- 
raan, Philadelphia ; admitted to bar of Northampton county. No- 



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vember 17, '46 ; founder of the town of South Bethlehem ; Presi- 
dent of Lehigh and Lackawanna railroad ; member State Con- 
stitutional Convention of '73 ; Trustee of Lehigh University, and 
founder of the " B rod head Prize." [Biographical Encyclopedia 
of Pennsylvania.] 

James Thompson Chapman, — From Mechanicsburg; he taught 
in the South, being reported as a resident of New Orleans. 

*IsAiAH N. Djlts, A.m., Somerville^ N. J. — Law^^er ; born at 
Schoole^^'s Mountain, N. J., August 3, 1824 ; prepared for cpUege 
at Morristown ; entered Sophomore class ; studied law at Mor- 
ristown, in the office of Senator Jacob W. Miller and Chief Jus- 
tice Whelple}' ; admitted to the bar in '47 ; in '50, licensed as 
counsellor; practiced at Morristown from '47 to '53, and since 
'53 at Somerville, where he died in May, 1878; he was Supreme 
Court Commissioner, U. S. Commissioner, contributor of 
numerous articles tt^ magazines, a delegate to the Cincinnati Re- 
publican Convention of '76, and brother-in-law of the Hon. Wm, 
L. Dayton ; his son was in the class of '76. [Biographical An- 
nals of New Jersey.] 

Benjamin Franklin Fackenthall, A.M., Easion, — Lawyer; 
born in Durham, Bucks count^^, November, 1825 ; Valedictorian: 
admitted to Northampton county bar November 21, '46; for 
some years was Superintendent of the Lillie Safe Works ; prac- 
ticed since '50 in the courts of Bucks and Northampton counties, 
and in the Supreme Court. The names of three of his sons oc- 
cur in the following pages. 

David K. McDonough, M.D,, New York City. — From New 
Orleans, La.; physician in New York, 213 Sullivan street. 

Rev. Winfield Scott Parsons, A.M., Wilkes-Bai-re. — Born in 
Massachusetts ; his youth was spent in Lambertville, N. J.; en- 
tered Sophomore second term; graduated at Princeton Theolog- 
ical Seminary, '47; ordained Evangelist by Presbytery of Buffalo 
City, '51 ; preached in Ward church, Lockport, N.Y., '50 ; taught 
at Trenton, N. J., '52 ; Saugerties, N. Y., '54 ; Pottstown, Pa., 
'55 ; Wilkes-Barre, '56 ; Clifton Springs, N. Y., '58 ; Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., '61-'71; Real Estate and Insurance Agent at Wilkes- 
Barre since '71 ; Alderman and Notar}- Public since '72. 



22 The Men of Lafayette. 

*James S. Reese, A.m. — Lawyer; born in Easton, Pa.; ad- 
mitted to Northampton county bar November 17, '46 ; and after- 
ward to Lehigh county bar; practiced at AllentowMi, where he 
died, in October, 1858, 

*WiLLiAM Rush, A.M. —Lawyer ; born in Mendham township, 
Morris county, N. J., March 10, '24; entered Sophomore; studied 
law under Henry A. Ford, Esq., of Morristown, N, J., and was 
admitted to the bar, but never practiced ; farmer until his death, 
March 29, '6G, at Bernard township, N. J. 

*Clermont Engles Thaw, A.M. — Lawyer; from Philadelphia; 
died near Altamont, Va., about 1850. 

CLASS OF 1845. 

^Thomas B. Alexander, A.M.— From Chester county. Pa.; 
Valedictorian ; editor of "Florida Whig ;" died at Mariana, Fla., 

1847. 

*Rev. James Wilson Carrell, A.M.— From Bucks county. 
Pa.; Latin Salutatorian; entered Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, and graduated in '48 ; preached at Rosemont, N. J., '48 ; 
ordained at Freeport, 111., '50, where he died in April, 1855 ; 
aged 36. The names of his brothers, Revs. Benjamin and John 
J. Carrell, occur in the following pages. 

Rev. George C. Heckman, D.D., Hanover-^ Ind. — Born in 
Easton, January 26, 1825 ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '48 ; licensed to preach, August, '47 ; ordained, Feb- 
ruary, '49 ; pastor at Port Byron, N. Y., September, '48 to De- 
cember, '56; Portage, Wis., '57-'60 ; Janesville, Wis., '60--61; 
Third Presbyterian church, Indianapolis, '61--7 ; State Street 
church, Albany, '67 to October, '70; since '70, President of 
Hanover College; he was the acting chaplain of the 19th Regi- 
ment U. S. Infantry, in garrison at Indianapolis ; has been Mod- 
erator of seven meetings of Presbytery, and thrice of Synod, and 
seven times Commissioner to General Assembly ; he received the 
degree of D.D. from Hanover, '68. 

*Rev. William B. Hews. — From Newark, N. J.; pursued full 
course of four years ; became a member of the Newark Confer- 
ence of the Methodist Episcopal Church ; was for a time stationed 



AluDini — Class of 184^. 2S 

as cliaplain of the Lunatic Asylum at Treuton, and died about 

1850. 

Rey. James Edwin Miller, A.M., Abingdon^ Va — Teacher 
and pastor ; from Morris county, N. J.; graduated at Princeton 
Tlieological Seminarj^, '48 ; licensed, August 21, '47; ordained 
as an Evangelist, April 24, '50 ; dismissed to Presbytery of 
Steuben, August 6, '50 ; received from Presbytery of Genesee 
River, Maj' 30, '54 ; and in June following installed at Strouds- 
burg, where he continued until 'fiO ; stated supply of Plumstead- 
ville, Pa.; preached in Minnesota, '70-'71 ; pastor at Abingdon 
since December, '77. 

Austin Denison Shoemaker, A.M., M.D.-From Kingston. 
After graduating he studied law in Easton, 1845--7 ; studied 
medicine at Yale, '47--9 ; went to the Pacific, and has not been 
heard from since 1850; supposed to be deceased. 

William M. Stephens, A.M., M.D., Gerro Gordo^ 111. — Born 
at Stephensburg, N. J.; entered Freshman ; studied law in Union 
Law School, Easton, '45-8, and was admitted to the bar in '48 ; 
studied medicine in New York and Cincinnati in '51 and '52 ; re- 
ceived degree of M.D. at Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati : 
was acting Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. volunteer service, 
'63--5, and in charge of hospital at Vicksburg ; since '65 has been 
in practice at Cerro Gordo. 

ReV. George Dillon Stewart, D.D., Fort Madison^ Iowa,— 
Born at Jenkintown, Pa., 1825 ; entered Sophomore class ; studied 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '47-9 ; ordained, April, '50 ; 
preached at Conquest, N. Y., '49-'51 ; at Bath, N. Y., '51-9 ; 
West Point, Iowa, '59-'64 ; Burlington, Iowa, '64-'70; Omaha, 
'70-7 ; since '77, pastor at Fort Madison, Iowa ; he received the 
degree of D.D. at Hanover College, Indiana, in 1872. 

Robert Joseph Wright, A.M., Bustleton. — Born in Philadel- 
phia; entered college as a sub-Freshman in October, '38; left in 
'40 ; engaged in manufacturing; re-entered in August,'42, and grad- 
uated in '45 ; until '51 was a merchant and manufacturer ; in '52 
he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, and since that 
time has been constantly devoted to the stud}- of Theology and 
Social Science ; is a lay preacher and a member of the New 



24 Jlie Men of Lafayette. 

Jersey Conference of the Christian Church ; author of "■ Frin- 
cipia, or the Basis of Social Science," and numerous other smaller 
publications on that subject ; has been professor of Ethics^ 
Metaphysics and Church History, in the Christian Biblical In- 
stitute, at Stanfordville, Dutchess county, N. Y., of which Rev. 
Pr, Austin Craig, of '46, is President; resides at Bustleton. 

CLASS OF 184-6. 

Rev John Brown', A.M., Knob^ Beaver Go. — From Wilkes- 
Barre ; entered Sophomore class; graduated at Western Theo- 
logical Seminary, '50; immediately became pastor of Freedom 
and Concord churches, retaining the latter charge until the pres- 
ent time. 

Rev. James H. Callen, D.D., Brooklyn^ N. F.— From Rap- 
hoe, Donegal count}^, Ireland ; studied Theology at Western 
Theological Seminary, '46-8 ; preached at Uniontown, '54 ; 
Phoenixville, '55-6 ; Tamaqua, '57-9 ; Morrisville, '60-1 ; Kings- 
ton, N. J.; and has been city missionary in Brooklyn since '69. 

Charles I. A. Chapman, A.M., Fittston, Pa. — Civil and Min- 
ing Engineer; born at Wilkes-Barre, October 9, 1826 ; clerk in 
Prothonotary's office at Wilkes-Barre; transcribing clerk of Sen- 
ate at Harrisbui'g ; First Lieutenant 131st Pa. Infantry, and 
Quartermaster of brigade ; resides at Port Blancliard, near 
Pittston. , 

*Rev. Joseph Donaldson. — A native of Ireland ; he early 
made his home at Commerce, Oakland county, Mich., where he 
died in 1849 ; he studied at Princeton Theological Seminary two 
years. 

Thomas McDonough Durnford, A.M., M.D. — From New Or- 
leans, La.; he is a gentleman of leisure; interested in literary 
pursuits, and divides his time between New Orleans and Paris. 

Henry Green, A.M., Easton. — Law^^er ; born in Greenwich, 
N. J., August 29, 1828; admitted tb the bar at Easton, Septem- 
ber, '49 ; Master Orator in '49; in '56, a delegate to the Repub- 
lican Convention that nominated Fremont ; member of the Penn- 
sylvania Constitutional Convention in '72; counsel to the Lehigh 



Ahunni-^ Class of 1846. 25 

Yalley railioad. — For full sketch, see Biographical P]ncyclopedia 
of Eminent Pennsylvanians. 

Abram Carpenter Hulshizer, A.M. — Lawyer and editor; 
from Stewartsville, N. J.; entered Sophomore; admitted to bar 
of Northampton county, November i2l, '48; editor of Belvidere 
Apollo ; practiced law in Phillipsburg, N. J ., ' 62--3, and lately 
residing in Missouri. 

Rev. Charles John Jones, A.M., New Brighton^ N. Y.— 
From London, England ; studied at Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary three years; Bethel missionary to St. Louis, Mo., '49; or- 
dained EvangelivSt by Presbytery of St. Louis, January 9, '50 ; 
pastor of Boatmen's church, St. Louis ; missionary to seamen in 
New York city, '54 ; pastor of Mariners' church, New York city, 
*56 ; Alumni orator, '58 ; chaplain Sailor's Snug Harbor, Staten 
Island, N. Y., since '63. 

*Rev. Thomas Kennedy, A.M.— Born at Stewartsville, N. J.; 
entered Sophomore ; studied at Princeton Theological Seminar^'- 
two years ; at Allegheny Seminary ; died during his cour.se of 
prepai'ation for the ministry, at his home, in Stewartsville, De- 
cember 21, '51, aged 24. 

Rev. Joseph Eastburn Nassau, D.D., Warsaw^ N.Y. — Eldest 
son of President Nassau ; born at Norristown, Pa., March 12, 
182*7; pursued full preparatory and collegiate course, '41-6 ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; tutor two years ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, '52 ; licensed, October, '51 ; ofdained, Oc^ 
tober 24, '55 ; taught at Lawrenceville, N. J., '51--3 ; Principal 
of Wilkes-Barre Female Institute, '53--5, and since October 24, 
1855, pastor at Warsaw, Wyoming county, N. Y. ; Trustee of 
Geneseo Academy and Ingham University ; Stated Clerk of 
Presbytery twenty years, and twice Moderator of Synod ; he re- 
ceived the degree of D.D. from Lafayette in 1872; author of nu- 
merous printed addresses and sermons. 

Rev. Thomas H. Newton, M.D., D.D., LL. D., Richmond^Va. 
— Born in Philadelphia June 25, 1821 ; of English parentage ; 
reared among Friends in Chester county ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, '49; ordained Evangelist by Presbytery 
of Philadelphia as chaplain of American Seamen's Friend Society, 



26 The Men of Lafayette, 

St. Thomas, West Indies, Nov. 1850 ; visited Venezuela on a mis- 
sionary tour ; then pastor at Berwick, Pa., 53 ; chaphiin at St. 
Louis,Mo,, '59 ; missionary in South-western Missouri; pastor 
at Carlinville, III., 'G2-4 ; and at the same time Professor in 
Blackburn University ; honorary member of the Academy of 
Natural Sciences at St. Louis ; graduated in medicine in Phila- 
delphia in '69 ; also received the degree of LL. D. in '72 ; while a 
student he organized a Natural History Society in Lafa3^ette, 
known as the Linne Lyceum ; in the West Indies he discovered 
several new varieties of shells, of which one received from Prof. 
C. B. Adams, of Amherst, the name Gorhxda Newtonia^ and an- 
other received in Europe the name Ci/elostoma A^ewtomi. Dr. 
N. has twice lost his collections by fire. 

John Sandt, A.M., M.D , Eadoiu — Born June 9, 1822, in 
Lower Mt. Bethel ; assistant teacher in Minerva Seminaiy, 
Easton ; entered Junior class ; graduated at Medical Department 
University of Penns3dA'ania, '50 ; permanent member of Medical 
Society of Pennsylvania ; Fellow of the American Academy of 
Medicine. 

Rev. Ephraim Simonton, A.M., Vienna^ Warren Co., N. J.— 
Born at Richmond, Northampton county, February 26, 1822; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminar}^, '49 ; licensed b}' 
Presbyter}^ of Newton, August 2, '48 ; missionary in Pike county, 
'49 ; preached at Andover, Tranquillity, and Allamuchy, N. J., 
November '49 to '51 ; then at Danville, Warren county, at which 
place he was ordained and installed pastor, December 2, '51, and 
so continued until April 24 '67; since then has preached as an 
Evangelist and resided on a farm at Viennn. 

*Rev. George W. Simpson, A.M. — From Ciiurchtown, Lan- 
caster county ; enteied Freshman, half advanced ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary ; licensed by Presbytery of 
Donegal; landed at the Gaboon, Africa, Januar}', '50, and im- 
mediatel}' selected Cprisco as the site for a mission; he and his 
wife came to their death in Corisco Baj^, April 5, '51, by the loss, • 
in a tornado, of the vessel in which the}' were making a short 
missionarj'^ voyage. 

*Rev. Franklin D. Stem, A.M. — Born at Parryville, Carbon 
county, December 28, 1828; brought up in Warren county, N. J.; 



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entered Sophomore ; tutor in Marshall College, '47-8 ; completeil 
his theological course at Mercersburg, and licensed to preach in 
'49 ; was ordained as a minister in the Grerman Reformed church 
in '51 ; chaplain of the Asylum for the Insane at Trenton, N J.; 
died August 24, 1851; "admired as a sincere and eloquent min- 
ister of the gospel." In the college records his name is printed 
" B. Franklin Stem ;" but to avoid confusion with another of like 
name, he changed it to that given above. 

'''Rev. John Stewart, A M.- Born in Greenwich, Warren 
county, N. J.; entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and 
graduated, '49 ; licensed, August 2, '48 ; dismissed to Presbytery 
of Wisconsin, August, '49 ; established a church at De Pere, 
Wis,, where he died in 1850. 

*James Henry Stuart, A.M., M.D — From Philadelphia ; 
born March 22, 1828 ; graduated at Medical Department of Uni-. 
versity of Pennsylvania, '50; practiced at Erie; then became 
Assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy ; he was in the Japan Ex- 
pedition of 1854, and was lost with all on board the U. S. brig 
Porpoise, off the Chinese coast, September, '54. 

Rev. Charles Wood, A.M., Brooklyn^ N.Y. — Born at Salem, 
N. J., September 15, 1819; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminar3% '49 ; ordained as an Evangelist in May, '49, at Phila- 
delphia; was a missionary in Texas; pastor at Fox Hill, Pa., 
'51; Absecom, N. J., '61 ; Blackwood, N. J., '64; since '67 at 
Park Chapel, Brooklyn ; vice-President of the Alumni Associa- 
tion, '78-9. 

Rev. John S. Woodside, D. D., KapurtJmla, Northern India. 
— From Stroan, Ireland ; entered Junior class in partial course ; 
foreign missionary of the Reformed Presbyterian church in In- 
dia since '48 ; originator of the Mountain Sanitarium in Northern 
India; delegate to the Evangelical Alliance in New York, Oc- 
tober, '73; received the degree of D.D. in '76. 

CLASS OF 1847. 

* John M. Barber, A.M. — Lawyer ; born in Warren county, 
N. J., June 16, 1827; studied in the Easton Law School, and 
was admitted to the Easton bar, September 17, '49, but practiced 
in Camden, N. J., nearly all his life; he removed to Paterson, 
N. J., in 1868 ; and there suddenly died, March, '69, aged 41. 



28 The Men of Lafayette. 

*Rev. John Brittain, A.M. — Born at Richmond, Noithanip- 
lon county, April 6, 1818; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '50 ; licensed, April 24, '50 ; dismissed to Presbytery 
of Wisconsin, October 2, '50 ; domestic missionary in Presbytery 
of Winnebago ; Principal of Academy, Portage Cit}^, Wis ,'51-5 ; 
died at Mineral Point, Wis., December 13, 'SG. 

Rev. Samuel A. Gayley, A.M., Golova^ Md. — From Wil- 
mington, Del.; graduated with the Latin Salutatory ; entered 
Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated, '50 ; ordained 
at Great Island church, Lock Haven, Pa., May 28, '51; Lower 
West Nottingham, Md., '56- ; Principal of Academy, '66- ; 
Alumni orator, '72 ; preached the sei'mon at the dedication of 
the College Chapel in '73 (published by the Trustees) ; President 
of the Alumni Association in '72. His son graduated in '76. 

'■'Rev. Jesse Lawrence Howell, A.M. — Born in Easton, Pa., 
October 8, 1826; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary. 
1851 ; licensed at Blairstown,N. J., October 8, "'51 ; ordained and 
installed pastor at Dobbs Ferrj-, N. Y., June 8, '53 ; preached at 
Stillwater, Minn., '60-66; Chatfield, '66-72; from '72 to '75 at 
Lake City and Bloomington, Minn., at which latter place he was 
subjected to great and sudden bereavements, in the decease of 
his wife and the accidental death of his daughter ; he died Ma^- 
5, '75; Permanent Clerk of the Synod of Minnesota. "A man 
of great amiability, unquestioned piety, and unswerving faithful- 
ness in his ministr}'." 

Rev. Ebenezer Dickey Junkin, D.D., Bronmsburg^Va.— Born 
at Milton, Pa., February 3, 1829; on the return of his father. 
President Junkin, from Miami University, he entered the Sopho- 
more class in Lafa3'ette ; taught at Wilmington and Xew Castle, 
Del., at Fredericksburg, Ya., and at Mt. H0II3', N.J. ; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '54; licensed, April 19, '54; 
ordained September 28, '55, at Prospect and Bethel churches, N. 
C, where he preached until September, '60, and since '60 at the 
New Providence church, in Yirginia ; received D.D. from Wash- 
ington and Jefferson College in '76. 

Rev. Edw^ard Kennedy, A.M., Merryall^ Bradford (Jo. — Born 
in Ireland ; made his home at Mauch Chunk; graduated with 
Scientific Oration; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, 



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'50 ; ordained as an Evangelist by PresbyteiT of Winchester, '51 ; 
preached at Prince William, Va., '50-3 ; at Berwick, '55 ; pastor 
at Elkland, Pa., '59 : preached at Fall Brook, "70 ; Barcla}-, '70-4 : 
since "15 residing at Merrj-all without pastoral charge. 

*WiLLiAM Kennedy, A.M., M.D. — Born in Warren count^^, N. 
J., February 6, 1829 ; graduated at Medical Department of Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, 51 ; practiced in Warren county until 
'57, when he removed to Dade count}', Missouri ; entered the 
Confederate armj- as Surgeon under Generals Sterling and Price, 
and was killed in the last raid made bv that army into Missouri, 
at the battle of Westport. 

John Fox McCoy, A.M., Carthage^ N. Y. — Merchant ; eldest 
son of Anthony- McCoy, Esq., who was for many 3-ears a member 
of the Board of Trustees, and its Secretary. He was born in 
Lower Mount Bethel ; after graduation he built up a large busi- 
ness in New York, in the manufacture and sale of leather, his 
being one of the leading houses in that trade ; as a numismatist, 
he gathered one of the linest collections of coins in the city ; he 
was a Trustee of Alma Mater from '65 to '75; in '76 he removed 
to Carthage, where he now resides. 

Oliver Horatio Meyers, A.M., Easton.- Lawyer and Judge ; 
born in Bethlehem township, August, 1827; admitted to the bar 
at Easton, November 19, '49 ; District Attorney of Northampton 
county, '57-9 ; elected President Judge of the Third Judicial 
District, October, '74. 

Francis MiCHLER, A.M., Easton. — Lawyer; born in Easton, 
March 23, 1830 ; Ins father, the Hon. Peter S. Michler, was State 
Senator, and Trustee of Lafayette from '26 to '49 ; studied law 
under Hon. J. M. Porter, and was admitted to the bar at Easton, 
April 22, '51; Commissioner for New York; engaged in coal 
operations, '55-61 ; retired from practice ; his son, Dr. H. D. 
Michler, graduated in '76. 

Edmund Neff, A.M. — Fiom Kutztown ; full course; studied 
law ; went West ; was District Attorney of Washington county, 
Wis., in 1859 ; since 1862 his residence has not been ascertained. 

Rev. William Francis P. Noble, A.M., Pesadina, Los An- 
gelos Co.., Cal. — From Noblesville, Lancaster county. Pa.; Yale- 



30 Tlie Men of Lafayette, 

dictorian ; tutor in 1849; graduated at Princeton Theolog-ic-ai 
Seminary, '50: ordained Evangelist, April, '57 ; pastor at Bel 
Air, Md., '58; West Nottingham, Pa., '62; Colerain, '06; Pen- 
nington ville, '69-; resided in Philadelphia, 'T2-6; chaplain 29th 
Regiment Pa. Infantry ; post Chaplain at Mower Hospital, U. S. 
Army, '62-4; author of Prophets of the Bible and the Seven 
Churches, illustrated, 552 pp., 8vo., 18T3 ; The Great Men of 
God, 557 pp., 8vo., X Y., 1876. and a Cyclopedia of Biography. 

James Henry Rice, A.M., Chester. — Born at Wilmington, 
Del., February 24. '1831 ; entered Sophomore; in mercantile busi- 
ness ; Aice-Prei*ident and Professor of Latin in Delaware Military 
Academy, '58-62; same position in Pennsylvania Military 
Academ}^, '62-3; in business, '63-6; Professor of Latin in the 
latter Academy since '75. 

Rev. James Wilson, A.M., Maceij^ Texas. — From Philadel- 
phia, Pa.; native of Ireland ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary,' 50 ; ordained Evangelist by Presb^'tery of Mississippi, 
at Natchez, '52 ; preached at Concord and Bethel, Tex., '56-9 ; 
Wheelock, Tex., '59-61. 

CLASS OF 1848. 

Rev. Hallock Armstrong, A.M., Monroeton. — Born in New 
York, near Bingharaton ; reared at Silver Lake, Susquehanna 
count}' ; graduated with honor. Scientific Oration ; studied at 
Princeton Theological Seminary one year ; Principal of Bethany 
Academy, N. Y., '53-4 ; Superintendent Schools of Sullivan coun- 
ty, Pa., '54-6 ; preached at Laporte, '54-9 ; at Dushore, '59-62 ; 
Chaplain 50th Pa. Lifantry. '62-3 ; preached at Monroeton since 
'64. 

William White Cottingham, A.M., Easton.—^ovn in Easton, 
December 6, 1824; tutor in Laftiyette, '48-9, '51-2; studied at 
Princeton Theological Seminary two years, '49-51 ; taught at 
South Easton, '53, and as the successor of Rev. Prof. Oliver S. 
St. John, has been continuall}' occupied as Superintendent of 
Public Schools of Easton since 1853, being now the longest in 
service of any Superintendent in the State. 

*Reuben Hall Crosby. — From Franklin county, Massachu- 
setts ; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary one year, and 



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during his first vacation died, wbile acting as colporteur in North 
Carolina, 1849. 

Rev, William Clark Davis, A.M., Lawrence Stoiion^ N.J. — 
Born at Lawrence, N, J., January T, 1821 ; graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, '51 ; preached at Bass Rivex*, N. J., '51 : 
Nanticoke, '51 ; teacher, Wilkes-Barre, '65 ; preached at Canton, 
Pa., '59-60 ; agent of Board of Publication, '60. 

Rev, Augustus Theodore Dobson, A,M., Chester.— Born in 
Philadelphia, June 26, 1820; studied three years, '48-61, at 
Princeton Theological Seminary ; was ordained at Moriches, L, I., 
October 18, '63, where he preached until '69; since, at Chester; 
has a son in class of '79. 

James T, Doran, A.M, Bertuyv, Chester Co. — From Stewarts- 
ville, N, J.; entered Junior ; Yaledictorian ; tutor in 1848 ; 
taught about twentA- years at Chestnut Level ; commission mer- 
chant in Philadelphia, '68-77 ; now teaching. 

Rev. Alexander Fairbairn, A.M., Cambria^ C'ai.— Born in 
Ireland, 1822 ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminaiy,'51 ; 
preached in Houston, Tex., '52-7, and since '57 in California, 
where, in six different towns, he has assisted in erecting churches 
costing in the aggregate, $40,000 ; a director of San Francisco 
Theological Seminary. 

Rev. Spencer L. Finney, A.M., Bye, N. Y. — Born in North- 
umberland county-, September 24, 1825 ; entered Sophomore ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; studied Theology in the Theological Seminar}^ 
of the Reformed Presbyterian Church, in Philadelphia ; licensed, 
December, 1850;. ordained in '52 ; pastor of the Second Reformed 
Presbyterian Church of New York, '52-66 ; leaving that ecclesi- 
astical body in '66, he Avas for six j-ears pastor of the Second 
Presbj'terian Church, Princeton ; six years at South Ryegate, 
Vt., and in 1878 became pastor at Rye. 

Rev. Robert Brown Foresman, A.M., Johnsonsburg, N. J. — 
Born at Washington, Lycoming count}', November 9, 1822 ; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '52 ; licensed June 
8, '52 ; ordained May 30, '54, at Lower Mt. Bethel, where he 
preached until January 1, 1873, when he removed to Johnsons- 
burg. His son Robert was in the class of '79. 



82 The Men of Lafaydk-. 

*Rev. Gershom Goble, A.M. — Born in Sussex count}^ Ni J«, 
March 22, 1823; graduated at Western Theological Seminary, 
'51 ; licentiate of Presbytery of Allegheny; preached in Mt. 
Bethel, 1853-6; ordained and installed pastor. May 3, 54; 
pastor at New Castle, Va., '56-8; clerk in Treasury Department, 
'64-7 ; died in Washington, D* C, December 23, '67, aged 43 ; 
buried at Portland. 

John W. Heckman, Roideshurg^ Wi Va^ — Born in Easton, 
1829 ; in mercantile business; 

Rev. John Napier Husted, A. Mi, Liberty,^ N. Y^ — From Cen- 
treville, Cumberland county, N. J. ; at Princeton Theological 
Seminary two ^^ears ; preached at Flanders, N. J., to '54 ; Zion^ 
Md., '56-62 ; at Liberty, N. Y., since '62. 

*PvEV. IsiDOR LoEWENTHAL, A.M. — Bom iu 1827, at Posen, 
Poland, of Jewish parents ; educated in the Gymnasium at Posen ; 
as a political refugee he reached New York in '46 ; engaged in 
trade he came to the notice of Rev. S. M. Ga^dey, who, discov- 
ering his remarkable talent and classical culture, procured for 
him the position of teacher of French, German and Hebrew in 
Lafayette, in January, '47 ; he mastered the course in mathemat- 
ics in six weeks, entered the Senior class, and at the same time 
acted as a tutor; he taught at Mt. Holly, N. J., '48-52; studied 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '52-6, where he was chosen 
Class Essaj'ist in '55, on " India as a Field of Missions ;" tutor 
in College of New Jersey, '55-6 ; in '56 Missionary at Peshawur, 
Afghanistan. He translated the New Testament into Pushto ; also 
prepared a dictionary of tliat language ; he spoke the languages 
of Europe and preached with facility in Pushto, Persian, Cash- 
mere, Hindustani and Arabic ; a contributor to British and Amer- 
ican quarterlies, including nine articles in the Princeton Re- 
view^ on philological and missionary topics. Of diminutive 
stature ; a prodigy of intellect and learning ; an accomplished 
musician and philologist. On April 27, 1864, while walking in his 
garden at night, he was mistaken by an attendant for a robber 
and instantly killed. 

Rev. John J. Auteu Morgan, A.M., Cleveland., Ohio.— From 
Milton, Pa.; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary two years; 



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jjreached at Southiimpton, L. L, '52-60 ; ordained pastor January 
20, '53 ; Hempstead, '61; taught, '67 ; ordained in Protestant 
Episcopal cliurch, April 6, "10 ; rector of St. Luke's Memorial 
churcii, Altoona, Pa,, '71-6; since '76 at Cleveland. 

James Hance Neighbour, A.M., Dover^ N. J. — Lawyer ; from 
German Valley, N. J. ; admitted to New Jersey bar, November, 
\53 ; President of the Longwood Valley Railroad. 

Gakrick Mallery Olmstead, A.m., Jensey City, N. J.— 
Lawyer ; born in Susquehanna county, Pa., December 8, 1830; 
studied law with Gov. Reeder, Easton, '49 ; paymaster's clerk, U. 
S, army, one year; then continued the stud3' of law in Jersey 
Git^', and was admitted to the bar February 4, '56, and has since 
been in continuous practice at Jersey City. 

John Boyd Smith, A.M., Peoria, 111, — Born in Sunbury, Fa., 
September, 1830; entered Sophomore class ; in November, 1853, 
lie engaged in banking in Peoria, and is now vice-President of 
the Mechanics' National Bank. 

Rev. William Crawford Somerville, D.D., Coventry, Vt. — 
Born in County Tyrone, North of Ireland ; graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, '51 ; pastor of the Presbyterian church. 
Huntsville, Tex., from September, '62; and Adjunct Professor of 
Languages in Austin College six and a half years ; pastor Pres- 
byterian church, Columbia, Tex., nine years ; pastor First Pres- 
b^'terian church, Houston, Tex.; since '70, pastor of the Con- 
gregational church at Coventry, Vt.; received D.D. from Austin 
College. 

Rev. Henry Egidius Spayd, A.M., Phillipsburg, N. J. — Born 
in Philadelphia, March 28, '25; studied three years at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary; licensed April 6, '53 ; ordained July 
20, '53 ; pastor at Solebury (now Thompson Memorial ) church, 
'53-67 ; Strasburg, '67-'70, and since '70. at Harmony, N. J., with 
post-office address as given above. 

Rev. John Squier, A.M., Port Deposit, Md. — From Hopewell 
Cotton "Works, Chester county ; studied theology at Princeton ; 
pastor at Port Deposit and Sykesville ; Trustee of Lafayette 
from '57 to '64 ; is now Superintendent of Schools. 



34 TJic Men of Lafaycttf. 

Joseph P. Stidham, A.M., M.D., Philadeljjhia. —Vrom Wil- 
mington, Del.; entered Sophomoie; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of Universit}' of Pennsylvania, '51 : early relinquished 
the practice of medicine, and has been for manj- years President 
of the Architectural Iron Works, Washington avenue, Philadel- 
phia; President of the Philadelphia Alumni Association. 

*HENRy P. Yanderbeck. — From Orosswicks, N. J.; teacher; 
died at Crosswicks, 1861. 

* Jesse S. "Wallace. — Born in Upper Mt. Bethel; theological 
student ; died at Allegheny City, April 15, '52, aged 25. 

William Allen "Wood, A.M., Pitfsyrove^ N. J.— Born in New 
Jersey ; studied law in Easton ; in leather business at p]aston ; 
then in mercantile business in Salem, K. J., and of late years at 
Daretown and Pittsgrove; has held local offices, and was the 
nominee of the Democratic party in Salem county for State Sen- 
ator. 

CLASS OF 1849. 

Rev. Samuel Holmes, A.M From Convoy, Ireland ; entered 

college from Abington, Montgomery county ; Valedictorian ; 
preached in Mississippi; then went to Wisconsin in '57; ceased 
the ministry and became teacher; not heard from since 1860. 

Rev. Philip "W. Melick, A.M.— Elizabeth City., N. 6\— From 
Light Street, Pa.; Latin Salutatorian ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary, '52 ; preached at Lycoming. Pennsdale, 
Mt. Bethel; Chaplain 153d Pa. Infantry, 1862--3; preached at 
Mt. Bethel, '68-70 ; since '70 he has been in the book trade in 
North Carolina. 

*George "W. A\\n Dyke, A.M., M.D.-From Easton ; entered 
Preparatory Department, '42 ; graduated at Medical Department 
of L^niversity of Pennsylvania, '52 ; located in Philadelphia as 
druggist and physician ; and there died May 20, '64, aged 32. 

CLASS OF 1S50. 

* Atcheson L. Glenn. — Physician ; from Newville ; entered 
Junior class ; Freshman and Sophomore at Dickinson ; died 
near Springtield, 111., October 16, '54. 



Alumni — Class of i8§o. 35 

Abram Goodwin, /v'i/if/,s^>/?. — From Wyoming Valley'; entci'cd 
-Junior chiss ; Latin Salutatorian ; since graduation has been at 
Kingston as a druggist, and for some years postmaster. 

Rev. Thomas McKeen Gray, A.M., New Lebanon, N. F.— 
Born in P^aston ; full course in Preparatory Department and col- 
lege , graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '53; 
preached at Bridgehampton, L. I.; installed at Derby, Ct., De- 
cember 18, '67 ; pastor at South Salem, N. Y., until 'tl; since 
"77 at New Lebanon. 

*Traill Green, .Jr., A.M. — Druggist; nephew of Prof. Traill 
Green, M.D,; born at Buttermilk Falls, Monroe county, January 
15, '34; at Marshall College two years, '46-8; at Lafayette, 
'48-50 ; taught and then studied in College of Pharmacy ; died in 
Philadelphia, October 21, 1855; iuterred in Easton cemetery. 

Adam Ramsay McCoy, A.M., New York City. — Born at Lower 
Mt. Bethel, Pa., May 12, 1833; Valedictorian; since his gradua- 
tion he has been engaged in the manufacture and sale of leather ; 
for the past twenty years in New York; residence at Orange, N. J. 

William W. Nassau, A.M., M.D., Burlington, Iowa. — Born 
in Montgomery county, April, 1832; in Preparatory Department, 
'41-6; College, '40-50; graduated at Medical Department of 
Universit}^ of Pennsylvania, '55 ; and immediately located at 
Davenport ; Assistant Surgeon of the 2d Iowa Regiment of Fort 
Donelson fame; also, Brigade Surgeon, and Surgeon-in-Chief 1st 
Division Itth A. C; served in New Mexico and the West three 
years ; had charge of the first steamboat hospital on the western 
waters. 

George Taylor, A.M., Baltimore, Md. — Merchant; born in 
Northampton county. Pa., Januar}' 22, 1828; for some years a 
surveyor; then a miner in Montana; since 1870, merchant in 
Baltimore. 

CLASS OF 1851. 

Rev. Joseph Beous, A.M., FalU of Schuylkill.— Born in Ire- 
land ; entered Sophomore, second term ; Valedictorian ; taught 
one year at Towanda ; graduated at Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, '54 ; ordained at Roxborough, Pa., May 17, '55-68; Falls 
of Schuylkill, '59-68 ; Manayunk, April, '68-75 ; since '75 at 
Falls of Schuylkill. 



86 The Men of Lafayette, 

*Rev. Hiram A. Dietterich.— From Berwick, Pa.; studied at 
Princeton Theological Seminary one 3''ear; agent American 
Bible Society in North Carolina, where he died in '55. 

John J. Hervey Love, A.M., M.D., Montclair^ N. J. — Born 
at Harmony, N. J., April 3, 33; graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of University of the City of New York, '55 ; from July, '62. 
to January, '64, was Field-Surgeon of 13th N. J. Regiment ; also, 
Brigade Surgeon, and Surgeon-in Chief of 1st Division 12th 
Corps, Army of the Potomac ; President of Newark Medical As- 
sociation, '63, and of Essex County Medical Society, "72 ; Fellow 
of the American Academy of Medicine ; since '55, has practiced at 
Montclair. [See Atkinson's Physicians and Surgeons of the 
U. S., and Clark's Medical Men of Essex County.] 

CLASS OF 1852. 

Rev. Robjort Hamill Davis, A.M., Ph.D., Laivrenceville, N.J. 
— Born at Coatesville, March 25, 1832 ; entered Sophomore ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; taught four years at Lawrenceville ; then three 
years in Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated '59 ; 
licensed, April, '58 ; ordained, June, '61 ; preached at Deerfleld, 
N. J., '60-75 ; in "75 succeeded his uncle, Pres. C. W. Nassau, 
D.D., as Principal of Lawrenceville Female Seminar}^ ; received 
Ph.D. from Lafayette in '76. 

John L. DuBois, A.M., Doylestown, Pa. — Lawyer; born at 
Doylestown, April 16, 18.82; entered Junior class; admitted to 
Bucks county bar, February 4, '56 ; is an elder in the Presbyterian 
church. 

Rev. David Mulford James, A.M., Bath, Pa. — Born in Deer- 
field, N. J. ; in Preparatorj^ Department two years ; College, four 
years ; studied at Princeton Theological Seminar}^ two years ; or- 
dained at Mt. Olive, N. J., October 4, '54 ; and w^as pastor of 
Mt. Olive and Flanders churches until '66; of Allen township 
and Bath, Pa., November 9, '69, to the present time. 

Washington Scott Johnston, PMllipshurg, N. J. — Lawyer ; 
born in Mansfield township, N. J. ; Scientific Oration ; admitted 
to bar at Easton, June 24,'59 ; Captain in Pennsylvania Regiment ; 
Adjutant 4Tth Pa. Volunteers ; engineer in the South and West 



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between '65--*74 ; practiced Jaw in Iowa, '75-6, and since "7() in 
Pliillipsburg. 

Thomas L. McKeen, A.M., A'o^to?;.— Bom in South Eastou- 
engaged in the lumber business from 1852--71 ; was Major of the 
5th Pa. Regiment, in the emergency service, in '63; in '71, ou 
the decease of his father, who had been a Trustee of Lafayette 
for twenty years, he was elected to fill the vacancy ; director of 
the Warren Foundry and Machine Co., and of the Easton National 
Bank ; and proprietor of the Chestnut Grove Stock Farm ; re- 
ceived tirst prizes for stock in the Pennsylvania," Maryland and 
Virginia State Fairs, and at the Centennial Exhibition. 

James Linn McLean, A.M., Winfield^ W. Va. — Lawyer; sou 
of President McLean ; from Princeton College ; entered Senior ; 
Valedictorian ; admitted to barat Easton, January 20,'55 ; received 
A.M. ad etmdem from the College of New Jersey, in '57 ; clerk 
in U. S. Treasurj' Department ; for many years past lawj'^er at 
VVinfield ; member of Legislature of West Virginia in '71. 

James Madison Porter, A.M., Easton. — Lawj^er ; eldest son 
of the Hon. J. M. Porter, President of the Board of Trustees ; 
born in Easton, 1833 ; in '53 he was on the suite of Gov. Vroom, 
Minister to Berlin ; admitted to the bar at Easton, Januar^^ 31, 
'55 ; attended law lectures in Heidelberg, '(35--7 ; District Attor- 
ney of Northampton county, '09-72 ; Grand Master of the Ma- 
sonic fraternity in Pennsylvania. 

Rev. Joseph W. Porter, A.M., Trenton., N. J. — Born in Ire- 
land, 1826 ; early became a resident of Mauch Chunk ; studied 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '52-4 ; licensed in '54, and 
took charge of a mission field at White Haven and Weatherly ; 
organized ihe church at Eckley ; pastor of the Phoenixville church 
from '59 to '76 ; supplying the adjacent church of Charlestown 
for ten j-ears ; resided in Philadelphia, '76-7 ; in April, '78, be- 
came pastor of Fifth Presbyterian church of Trenton. 

CLASS OF 1853. 

William Patterson Andrews, A.M., Washington., D. G. — 
Lawyer ; born at Doylestown, Ma}'^ 6, '34 ; entered Sophomore 
class ; admitted to Bucks county bar December 4, '60 ; three 
years in Battery "D," Pa. Artillery, 104th Regiment; for a 



38 Uie Men of Lafayette. 

number of yeurs pas-t a clerk in the Second Auditor's office^ U. S. 
Treasury Department. 

*Rev. Samuel Rankin Uayley, A.M — Born in Creevy, Ty- 
rone^ Ireland, October, 1828; came to this coiintry in 1847, and 
taught at ^Yilmington, Del., until 1850 ; entered Sophomore class ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; tutor in "55 ; entered Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '53, and graduated '56 ; ordained as an Evangelist by 
Presbytery of New Castle, July 1, '56, and on August 20, mar- 
ried JVIiss Sarah S. Mills, of Buffalo, N. Y., a sister of his chum, 
the Rev. C. R. Mills-, in October, the two, with their wives, and 
also Miss Mills, sailed for China, as missionaries; in 1861 he re- 
moved from Shanghai to the city of Tung Chow, where he became 
a victim to cholera, July 29, '62. 

Thomas Gardner Uayley, A.M., Philadelphia. — Born at 
Philadelphia, August 31, 1832; entered Sophomore; engaged in 
teaching thirteen years ; book-keeping six 3'ears ; real estate 
agent and conveyancer since 18T2, at 1909 Pine street; Superin- 
tendent of Sabbath school ; Trustee and Elder of AVest Arch 
street church. 

Samuel Sherrerd Kennedy, A.M., M.D., Sfeimrfsville, X. J. 
— Born at Stewartsville; grnduated at College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in New York, and successor to his father in medical 
practice at Stewartsville. 

Rev. Charles Rogers Mills, A.M., Ghe/00, China.-^Born at 
Guilford, Chenango county, N. Y., August 21, 1829; entered 
Sophomore ; Yaledictorian ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminar}-, '56 : licensed h\ the Presbytery of New Castle, Del., 
April 11, '55; appointed Foreign Missionary, Februar}- 25, '56 ; 
ordained an Evangelist by Presbj^tery of Buffalo City, .Tune 25, 
'56; reached Shanghai February 7, '57 ; in August, '62, removed 
to Tung Chow (Chefoo P. O.) ; from this mother church, in the 
past fifteen years, eight other native churches have sprung, with 
a total membership of over 500 ; he visited the United States in 
'69-71, and presented to Alma Mater a collection of Chinese 
implements. 

CLASS OF 1S54-. 
*JoHN B. Dorrance. — Born June 1, 1834; died at Wilkes- 
Barre, Pa., October 18. '55, aged 21. The monument erected to 



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himself and brother, James M., of the class of '55, beai"s the in- 
scription ; "They all died in the foith." 

Rev. Edsall Ferrier, A.M., Maucli Chunk, — Born in Wai- 
wick, N. Y,, October 30, 1831 ; entered Sophomore class- gradu- 
fited with Latin Salutatory ; tutor in Lafayette '57-8 ; studied 
Jit Princeton Theological Seminary two years ; ordained at Amity, 
X. Y., May 10, '58 ; pastor at Florida, N. Y., ^()0-5 ; Professor of 
English Language and Ijiterature in Washington and Jefferson 
College, '65--6 ; Grraeft' Professor of the English language, and 
vice President' of Pennsylvania College, at Gettysburg, '66--T3 ; 
since '73 pastor at Mauch Chunk : President of the Alumni As- 
sociation in '73. 

Robert McCachren, A.M., Newinlie^ Po, — Lawyer; born at 
Newville ; entered Senior class from Jeflerson College ; studied 
law with Judge F. Watts, at Carlisle, and was admitted to the 
bar, '57 ; was engaged for some years as a surveyor and civil en- 
gineer. 

* William McGALLrARD, — Lawyer; from Lawrenceville, N. J.; 
entered Junior class ; Valedictorian ; taught after graduation ; 
then practiced law in Lincoln, Logan count}^, 111., and there died, 
November 11,' 73 ; interred in Riverview Cemetery, Trenton, N. J. 

William Lewis Nepf, Philadelphia. — Born at Williamsburg, 
Blaircounty,November 10, 1832; Sophoraoreat Marshall College; 
remainder of his course at Lafayette ; studied law at Lancaster 
and Rock Island ; admitted to practice in the Supreme Court of 
Illinois in January, '57 ; but early gave his attention to the 
manufacture of iron ; was nominated as a candidate to the Penn- 
sylvania Legislature in '59 ; in '61, entered the 3d Pa. Regiment 
as Captain ; iu '03-4, in the 22d Regiment Pa. Cavalry ; cotton 
planter in Mississippi in '66~7 ; in 'fi9, Secretary of the Rome 
Iron Manufacturing Co.. Georgia ; for some j^ears past wholesale 
merchant in Philadelphia. 

CLASS OF 1855. 

Rev. Hugh Samuel Alexander, A.M., Culpeiyper^Va. — Born 
near Lewistown, Mifflin county, June 27, 1828; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary in '61 ; licensed by the Presby- 
tery of Philadelphia in '60 ; Principal of Kishacoquillas Serai- 



40 The Men of Lafayciti.. 

nary, '56-9 ; preached at Aurora and Bensalem, Bucks countj. 
'61, and at Newark, Ohio, in '62 ; exposure on the battle-field of 
Antietam in '62, in the service of the Christian Commissiony 
caring for the wounded, so aggravated a chronic difliculty with 
his throat that he w'as compelled henceforth, to a great extent, to 
relinquish preaching ; founded and conducted the Columbia 
Classical Institute, '64--14 ; now Principal of the Wheatdale 
Classical Academy at Culpepper. 

Robert I'orter Allen, A.M., \]'il!iam>^/iort. — I^awjer; born 
in Lycoming county, February 6, 1835; prepared foi" college in 
Dickinson Seminary ; entered Sophomore ; studied law at Harvard 
and has practiced at Williamsport since '58 ; served in the war 
in the 11th Pa. Yolunteers, and as Adjutant of the 5th J'a. Mil- 
itia; member of the i'ennsylvania Senate, "I5--8, for the Twentj'- 
fourth District, composed of the counties of Columbia. Tjycoming, 
Montour and Sullivan. 

Elisha Allis, A.M., i!vV>;/07;. — Lawyer; born in Holley, Or- 
leans county, New York ; whence his parents removed to West- 
field, N, Y., from which place he entered Sophomore class in 
March, '53 ; after graduation he entered the the office of M, Hale 
Jones, Esq., of Easton, and was admitted to the Northampton 
count}' bar, November 18, '56, where he has since been in constant 
practice. 

WiLLiAiM M. Allison, A.M., MiJUntown.— Editov; from Mif- 
flintown ; graduated with Honorary Oration ; has been in the 
editorial chair since graduation, for some years publishing the 
Altoona Tribune, and more recently the Juniata Tlrgi^ter : is at 
the present date a resident of Hendersonville, N. C. 

Charles A. Apple, A.M., Washinf/ton , J). C— From Easton ; 
graduated with Honorary Oration; taught at Patterson, N. Y. ; 
editor ; Major 9th Regt. Pa. Cavahy, and prisoner of war in 
" Libby Prison" in '63 ; clerk in U. S. Treasurj- Department; 
since '74 accountant in Municipal offices, Washington. 

*Rev. Robert Caldwell Bryson, A.M. — From Pennsylvania ; 
born December 2, 1828 ; entered Sophomore second term; grad- 
uated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '58 ; licensed, '59 ; at 
Ashland, '59-68 ; Pine Grove church, December, '68, until his 
death, April 13, '73. 



Alumni — Class of i8jj. 41 

Edward Livingston Campbell, A.M., Trenton^ N. J^.- Law- 
yer ; born near Belvidere, N. J., Febrnar}^ 2, 1833 ; entered Soph- 
omore ; A^aledietorian ; taught in Belvidere, '55-60 ; admitted to 
the New Jerse}^ bar in '60 ; served through the whole war from 
April 18, '61, to July 12, '65, chiefly as Lieut. Colonel of the 15th 
N. J. Regiment ; wounded at Antietam and Cedar Creek ; bre- 
vetted Brigadier General, April 9, '65, for gallant and meritori- 
ous services ; Judge Advocate General of the Army of the Poto. 
mac from February to July, '65 ; was State Military Agent at 
Trenton, '65-7, and has since been in legal practice ; is now City 
Solicitor, [Biographical Annals of JVew Jersey.] 

William Chandler, Chestnut Level. — Born in New Jersey ; 
entered Sophomore; Lieut. 21st Regiment Pa. Cavalry; was a 
prisoner of war in " Libby ;'' now a farmer and Justice of the 
Peace. 

Allen Craig, A.M., Mauch Chunk. — Lawyer; born at Lehigh 
Gap, December 25, 1835 ; studied law in the office of Hon. M. 
M. Dimmick, at Mauch Chunk, and was admitted to the bar of 
Carbon county June 4, '58 ; District Attorney, '60-66 ; represen- 
tative in State Legislature, '66--'7~8 ; Senator for the counties of 
Carbon, Monroe and Pike, to serve for four j^ears from January, 
'79. His family were among the earliest settlers in the State, 
having emigrated from Ireland in 1728, and settled in Northamp- 
ton county. His grandfather, Gen. Thomas Craig, served under 
Arnold in the French and Indian war, and also through the Rev- 
olutionary war. 

Horatio Gates Fisher, A.M., Huntingdon. — Member of Con- 
gress ; born at Huntingdon, April 21, '36; for many years a 
merchant, and now' of the firm of Fisher & Miller, miners and 
shippers of semi-bituminous coal; State Senator 33d Pa. District, 
'75-8 ; elected Member of Congress in November, '78. 

Rev. William Albro Jenks, A.M., Norristown. — Born in 
Bridesburg, May 22, '34 ; graduated in theology at Princeton in 
'61 ; pastor at Titusville, N. J., '62-70; from '70 to '75 he was 
pastor of the " Alfred Jenks Memorial Church," at Bridesburg, 
erected in memory of his father, who was a Trustee of Lafayette ; 
and pastor of the Central Presbyterian church of Norristown 



43 The Men of Lafayette. 

since July, "15 ; he laid the corner-stone of " Jenks Hull " in 'fif), 
and was President of the Alumni Association in '70-1. 

*Henry Martyn Ker. — From Huntingdon, Pa,; Latin Saluta- 
toi'ian ; died at Huntingdon, June 20, '57, aged 24. 

*Thomas Miner McCarragher,— Born at Wilkes-Barre, '34: 
attacked by hemorrhage of the lungs in the latter pai-t of his 
Senior year; died at Wilkes-Barre, March 7, '59, aged 24. 

James Morgan Rawlins, A.M., PFe«i' Philadelphia. ~Vx'\n(i\y;)^\ 
of West Philadelphia Academy ; born at Buck, Lancaster county. 
November 18, '31 ; entered Junior class; taught at Freehold, 
N. J., in '55, and has since been Principal of Academies at 
Cochranville, Williamsburg, Chestnut LeA-el, Parkesburg, and 
since '72 in West Philadelphia. 

Rev. John Calhoun Thompson, Philadelphia. — From Brandy- 
wine Manor ; entered Sophomore ; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, '58; ordained at Smyrna, Pel., May, 'GO; 
Pottstown, Pa., '64-73 ; Hagerstown, Md., from November, '73, 
to '79; pastor of First Presbyterian church of Southwark, in 
Philadelphia, B'ebruary 13, '79. 

Henry S. Wharton, Huntingdon.— 'From Huntingdon; he 
has been in mercantile business and agent of the Pennsylvania 
railroad ; also, a member of the Legislature. 

Major Charles A. Wikoff, A.M., U.S. A., Cheyenne Agency., 
Dakota Territory.— 'Bovn in Easton, March 8, '37 ; after gradu- 
ation he was for several years a civil engineer on the Illinois 
Central railroad ; later he commenced the study of law with Wil- 
liam Davis, of Stroudsburg, and lacked but two months of ad- 
mission to the bar when Fort Sumter was taken ; he enlisted 
April 15, '61, in 1st Pa. Regiment; on May 14, '61, he was ap- 
pointed First Lieutenant 15th Regiment LT. S. Regular Infantry; 
at the battle of Shiloh he was wounded and left for dead upon the 
field ; for gallantrj' in this action and at Missionary Ridge, he 
was successively brevetted Captain and Major; on August 15th, 
'64, he was appointed Captain in the 24th Regiment, and after- 
ward transferred to the 11th Regiment F. S. Infantry ; since the 
war he has been on dut}-, mainlv in Mississippi and Texas, and 
for the past three years in Dakota. 



Alumni — Class of i8^^. 43 

Eugene Hai.sey' Wood, A.M., M.l)., Hersey, Michiyan. — 
Bora in Lycoming county, Pa., December 5, 1835 ; entered 
Junior class, from Dickinson college; studied medicine at Wil- 
liamsport, Pa., '56 ; at Woodstock, 111., '5Y-8. For ten years he 
traversed the globe as a sailor and ship's surgeon ; was assist- 
ant surgeon of 8th Regiment of California Volunteers in '64-5 ; 
since '69, practicing medicine at Hersey, Osceola count}'', Mich. 
Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. 

CLASS OF 1856. 

Rev. David Stuart Banks, A.M., Marquette^ Mich. — From 
Oakland, Pa. ; entered Sophomore ; graduated at Princeton The- 
ological Seminary, '59 ; preached at Altoona, Pa. ; pastor of 
Brainerd church, Easton, December, '65, to February, '73 ; since 
'73 pastor at Marquette. 

Richard DeCharms Barclay, Philadelphia. — Lawyer; from 
Bedford ; entered Junior class ; graduated with Honorary Ora- 
tion ; Attorney in the office of the President of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

Evan Miles Blanciiard, Rellefonte.^ Centre Co. — Lawyer ; 
born in Bellefonte, January', 1835; entered Freshman, second 
term ; studied law in the office of Hon. A. G. Curtin and Edmund 
Blanchard, his brother, and in November, '59, was admitted to 
the Centre county bar, where he has since practiced. 

Horace Bonham, A.M. York. — Born in York, November 25, 
1835 ; entered Junior ; studied law in York, and was there ad- 
mitted to the bar in '58, but never practiced ; editor and pub- 
lisher of a newspaper, \59~62 ; Assessor of Internal Revenue 
for 15th Pa. District, from September, '62, to October, '66 ; he 
spent some time abroad in the study of art, and since '68, has 
made it his profession. 

Rev. John P. Clarke, Danville., N. J. — Born in Philadelphia, 
December 9, 1824 ; at Western Theological Seminary, '58-60 ; 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '60-1, and graduated ; licensed 
'60 ; ordained April, '62 ; preached in Huntingdon Presbytery, 
'61-5; Doe Run, '65-8; Little Valley, '68-73; and Danville 
church, since October, '73. 



44 The Men of Lafayette. 

Charles Corss, A.M., Loch Haven. — Lawyer ; born at Kings- 
ton, July 20, 1837 ; entered Sophomore class, second term ; Vale- 
dictorian ; tutor in Lafayette, '58-9 ; admitted to the bar of North- 
ampton countj", April 16, '60; and since '60 practiced at Lock 
Haven. 

Rev. David Kerr Freeman, A.M., Scranton. — From Blairs- 
town, N. J.; entered Sophomore; Honorary' Oration; studied 
theology at Danville Seminary, Ky.; pastor at Harmony, N. J., 
December 3, '62; Mendham, 'TO: Washburne Avenue church, 
Scranton, since January, "14. 

William Alexander Montgomery Grier, A.M., Hazleton. — 
Banker; born at Danville, December 9, '33; entered Sophomore, 
half advanced ; Teller of Danville Bank, '56-62; Cashier of First 
National Bank, Danville, '62-1; in banking firm of Pardee, 
Markle & Grier, Hazleton, since '67; since '73, has been, by ap- 
pointment of Gov. Hartranft, a Trustee of State Hospital for the 
Insane, at Danville. 

Lemuel Gulliver Grier, A.M., Birmingham. — From Doyles- 
town; entered Sophomore; for nearly twenty years he has been 
Principal of the Mountain Female Seminary at Birmingham. 

Herman Hamburger, A .M., Philadelphia. — Miner and shipper 
of coal; born in Philadelphia, December 21, '37; studied law 
■with Furman Sheppai'd, of Philadelphia, and admitted to the bar, 
'59; was Lieutenant in the 29th Regiment Pa. Cavalry, and 
Captain and Assistant Adjutant General 1st Brigade 3d Division 
Cavalry Corps, Arm}^ of the Potomac; Justice of the Peace; 
Associate Judge of Carbon count}-; and since '70, in the coal 
business at 205^ Walnut street, Philadelphia. 

Rev. David Melville Heydrick, Brooklyn.^ N, Y. — From 
Bridesburg, Pa.; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminar}-, 
'59; for twenty years has been Cit}^ Missionary in Brooklyn. 

Washington W. Hopkins, Lancaster. — Lawyer; entered 
Sophomore, second term; 1st Lieutenant 79th Pa. Infantrj-; 
Captain in Pa. Volunteers; on staffs of Generals Hooker, Thomas 
and Sherman; member of Pennsylvania Legislature in '70. 



Alumni — Class of i8j6. 45 

^Francis Kennedy, A.M. — Born in Belvidere, X. J., Decem- 
ber 22, '34; Junior Orator; graduated at Philadelpliia College of 
Pharmacy, '59; druggist at Bridgeton, N. J., and Belvidere until 
his decease, at the latter place, March 24, '66, 

*Hknry David 1\ Kerr, A.M. — Lawyer and manufacturer; 
born in Phillipsburg, N. J., July 8, 1836 ; Junior Orator; grad- 
uation speech was on " Immortality ;" studied at Poughkeepsie 
Law School, and was admitted to the bar of New York in '58. 
Interested in the manufacture of silk and machinery. Corporal 
Yth Regiment N. Y. State Militia. Died in New York, April, 
'66 ; and interred in Easton cemetery. He made Alma Mater his 
residuary legatee. 

*JosHUA Williams Ker. From Huntingdon. Died in 

the South, March 24, 1857, aged 21. Ministry in view. 

Samuel Gordon Logan, Wilmington., Del. — Lawyer; from 
Wilmington ; Latin Salutatorian ; Master Orator in '59 ; in mil- 
itary service as private in a Delaware regiment ; clerk in Wash- 
ington, '72-4 ; now in mercantile business. 

*Robert M. McCormick.— Prom Milton ; entered Sophomore 
class ; taught at Lebanon two years ; then studied law with E. H. 
Baldj^, of Danville, and was admitted to the bar ; practiced suc- 
cessfully in Ashland ; when, soon after the beginning of the war, 
he joined the 7th Pennsylvania Cavalry, and while serving as 
Captain in the winter of '63, in Georgia, was killed by Sue Man- 
day's notorious guerillas. 

*Rev. Joseph Alexander Patterson. — Born near Academia, 
Juniata county, in 1833 ; entered Sophomore ; taught in Tusca- 
rora Academy one year ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '60 ; preached at Luzerne, N. Y., '61 ; pastor at Jack- 
sonville, Pa., from July, '62, until his death, December 31, '64. 

Rev. Owen Reidy, A.M., New Orleans., La From Siegers- 

ville ; entered Sophomore ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '59 ; in the U. S. Army in '62 ; ordained Evangelist 
April 14, '64 ; Chaplain U. S. Colored Troops, '64 ; teacher and 
pastor of German church at Gretna, a suburb of New Orleans, 
since '66. 



4<)' The Mc7i of Lafayette; 

Kkv. James McMurtrie Salmon, A.M., Bancjor^ Norf,hamp(</u 
i.'o. — From Fowlerville ; entered Sophomore ; studied at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, 5t-8; ordained at Berwick and 
Brier Creek, April, '59 ; preached at Eckley, '6S-'T0 ; at White 
Haven, Y)8-13 ; organized the First Presbyterian ciiurch of 
Bangov, where he has been pastor since '13, 

Charles B. Vastine, A,M,, M.U., St. LouLf, Mo. — From St. 
Louis; Professor in the Eclectic Medical (college, and engaged 
in ])ractice. 

Joseph Paxton V'asttne, A.M., Sf. LouiH, Mo. — Lawyer ancl 
judge; from St Tjouis; Assistant City Circuit Attorney, '61. 

CLASS OF 1857. 

Rev, Joseph IIarhison Barnard, Kankakee, III. — Born in 
Tuscarora Valley, Juniata county, February 9, '38; entered 
Sopliomoie; Latin Salutatorian ; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminar}', '(50; pastor at Bellelbnte, '()l-6; at Waukesha, 
Wis., '66-73; at Kankakee, since "13. 

John Alexander Montgomery Boyd, Sunbi/r>j. — From Dan- 
ville; since graduation he has been in mercantih^ business; 
wholesale dealer in coal. 

* Whitfield Hunt Budd, A.M. — Teacher; born at Budd's 
Lake, N. J., October 26, '31 ; entered Sophomore class; taught 
in the Chester Listitute, '57-8; in the Belvidere Academy, 
'58-60; in the Hackettstown Academy, 60-64; at Newton, 
New Jersey, where he married; in '66 he went with his friend, 
Rev. John A. Reily, class of '36, to East Feliciana Parish, 
La., where he spent much time in teaching the freedmen, until 
his death, August 25, '68; he was buried at his native place. 
"An educator adorning the sphere in which lie moved." 

Rev. John Burrows, A.M., WilliamKport^ Pa — Born at Ar- 
nold, England, December 25, '31 ; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, '61 ; ordained November 26, '61; pastor of the 
Presbyterian Church of Amwell ( Second) from November 26, '61, 
to May, '68; of Milford, N. J., '68-73; of Williamsport, since 
July 9, '73. 



Alumni — Class of iSjy. X7 

Rev. Knooo (^i,arkk Clink, A.M., (hij'ord Funiact^^ N.J. — 
Class Secretary; born at Unioritown, Warren county, N. J., June 
3, '35; entered Sophomore class; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seoiinary, '<i2 ; preached one year at Doe Run, Pa.; or- 
dained .sine liluh^ ,]u\y V, '63; Chaplain llth Regiment N. Jv 
Volunteers fiom July, '<)3, until the regiment was mustereil out, 
June 12, '65 ; present at many battles; pastor since '65 at Oxford. 

Rev. David Cuaft, Wyaiusing.' — Born at Carniel, N. Y., Oc- 
tober 3, '32 ; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, '59-60; 
licensed in '60, and preached since that date at Wyalusing and 
vicinity; Chaplain of the 141st Regiment Pennsylvania Volun- 
teers in '62-3 ; author of History of Wyalusing, and History of 
Bradford county, a work of extensive research. 

Rev, Samuel Alden P^iieeman, A.M., IJoneoije Fails., N. F.— 
Born at Hanover, N. H., January 25, 1838 ; his early home was 
in New Jersey; entered Junior class; Valedictorian; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '61 ; ordained as an evangel- 
ist, October 22, '61 ; preached at Squan Village, N. J., '61-9; 
and since '69 at Honeoye Falls. 

James Rich Greer, A.M., rhiladelphia.. — Tiawyer; born at 
Greer's Corners, Bucks county, October 27, 1833 ; taught at 
Durham before entering college ; after graduation he was Princi- 
pal of the Academy at Aberdeen, Md., until '60, when he entered 
the law odice of Judge Richard Watson at Doylestown, and was 
admitted to the Doylestown bar April 28, '62 ; to the Philadel- 
phia bar the following September : and subsequently to the Su- 
preme Court of ]*ennsylvania, and the United States District and 
Circuit Courts. 

Charles Hammond, A.M., Hruv.swicfc, Chariton Co.. Mo. — 
Lawyer; born in Wellsbuig, Brooke county, Va., March 5, 1836 ; 
entered Sophomore ; after graduation he taught in Missouri, and 
was soon admitted to the bar at Brunswick, where he has ever 
since practiced. In '75 he was elected a member of the Constitu- 
tional Convention from the Sixth Senatorial District of Missouri, 
and had a prominent part in framing the present Constitution of 
the State, in '76 he represented his county in the Legislature ; 
and for the past ten years has been an elder in the Presbyterian 
church. 



*8 The Men of Lafayette, 

*Thomas Howard. — Born in Kelly township, Union conntj^ 
December, 1836 ; reared near Lewisburg, Freshman 3'ear in Lew- 
isburg University ; graduated with Honorary Oration ; law in 
view ; taught in Denmark, Tennessee, and there died July U, '59. 

Isaac Thomas Jones, Baltimore^ Md. — Lawyer; born at West 
River, Md., December 2, 1838 ; entered Sophomore class ; admit- 
ted to bar of Maryland in '61 ; practiced since '64 ; member of 
the Maryland Legislature from Howard county, '68. 

William Kennedy, A.M., Pottsville, — Editor- bom in Easton, 
September 21, 1838; er<rly home in Chambersburg; entered 
Sophomore ; admitted to the bar in '59 ; in '60, editor at Carlisle, 
and in "61-2 at Shippensburg; in 126th Regiment Pa. Volun- 
teers, August, '62, to February, '68 ; practiced law ; Assistant As- 
sessor of Internal Revenue in '67 ; since "74, editor at Pottsville; 
Alumni Orator in '70. 

James Alexander Laughlin, A.M., 6V«i'Z/?na/i, Ohio. — From 
Carlisle, Pa.; entered Junior class from Dickinson College; 
teacher; for some years at Evansville, Ind.; since '68, book- 
keeper in Cincinnati. 

Rev. John Albert Liggett, Hahway, N. J. — Born at Brandy- 
wine, November 1, 1834 ; English Salutatorian ; graduated at Dan- 
ville Theological Seminary, '61; pastor at Crittenden, Ky., '61-4, 
and of the Second Presbj'terian church, Rahway, since '64 ; de- 
livered Centennial Eulogy on Lafayette, before the Alumni, 
June 25, '76. [Biographical Annals of New Jersey.] 

Rev. William Wilson McKinney, CoaneautviUe. — Born at 
Boalsburg, 1837; at Allegheny Theological Seminary, '58-61 ; 
licensed, April, '60; ordained, October, '61; pastor at Centre, 
Mercer county, '61-5 ; editor of Family Treasure., Pittsburg, 
'65-7; pastor at Kingston, Ohio, '67-72; Finleyville, Pa., "72-7; 
since "77 at ConneautA-ille. 

Rev. Samuel Miller Moore, D.D., Tyrone. — Born at Norris- 
town, September 15, 1833; entered Sophomore; studied one 
year at Union Theological Seminary, Va., and a year at Princeton 
Theological Seminary; licensed April 19, '59; ordained Decem- 
ber 6, '59; pastor at Pine Grove and Bald Eagle, October, '59, to 



Alumni — Class of iSjj. 49 

Y)3; at Alexandria, '63-70; at Tyrone, since '70; received the 
♦legree of D.D. from Hampden Sidney College, in '75. 

Rev. John Jay Pomeroy, A.M., Rahtoay^ N. J. — Born at Rox- 
bury, Franklin count}', September 8, 1834; entered Sophomore ; 
taught one year near Oakland College, Mississippi ; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, "61 ; ordained and installed 
at Dover, Del., November 28, '61; chaplain 3d Pa. Reserves, Oc- 
tober 9, '62, to June, '64, and of the 198th Pa. Regiment until 
the close of the war; pastor of Upper Octorara church, at Parkes- 
burg, '65-75 ; at Rahway since '75. 

Benjamin Horatio Pratt, A.M., Scranton. — Journalist ; born 
at Taunton, Mass., 1834; entered college from Danville, Pa., '53 ; 
went to Elmira, N. Y., '57 ; studied and practiced dentistry there 
seven years, and at Bath, N. Y., one 3'ear ; student of Oi^hthalmic 
and Aural surgery at Elmira, two years ; Principal of Danville, 
Pa., Academy three years; book-seller and stationer at Scranton 
two years; local editor Elmira Advertiser' one 3'ear ; city editor 
Scranton Daily Times four years ; city editor of Scranton Daily 
Bepuhlican the past two years. 

William Calvin Roller, M.D. — Hollidaysbury. — Born at 
Williamsburg, Blair county, March 6, 1838; graduated at Jeffer- 
son Medical College, '61 ; Assistant Surgeon in U. S. Volunteer 
service from April 16, '61, to February, '65, in 3d and 23d Pa. 
Regiments ; since '65, practicing at Hollidaysburg ; permanent 
member of Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 

Rev. George Louis Shearer, A.M., New York City. — Born 
in Dillsburg, Pa., October 16, 1835; graduated with Honorary 
Oration; tflught four 3^ears in Alabama and Pennsylvania; grad- 
uated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '64 ; licensed, April 
20, '64 ; ordained, October, '65 ; Missionary of the American 
Tract Societ}', March 23, '62 ; District Secretary of American 
Tract Society, '64, and Financial Seci'etary since '72 ; instrumental 
in extending the work of that Society into the South in '65-7, 
and in the Pacific States in '68; he was a pioneer in the move- 
ment for instructing the freedmen ; as earl}' as March, '62, open- 
ing a school for them in Washington, D. C. 

Robert Snodgrass, A.M.^ Harrisburg. — Lawyer; born in 
P^ast Hanover, Dauphin county, October 12, 1836 ; entered Sopho- 



50 The Men of Lafayette. 

more; gTaduated with Honorary Oration; taught three ^-ears; 
Deputy Clerk of the Court of Hardy county, Va., September, 
'60-2; admitted to the bar at Harrisburg, May 4, '63; Prothono- 
tary of the Supreme Court of Penns34vania, for the Middle Dis- 
trict since November, '70. 

John W. Stephens — Born near New London, Chester county, 
January 27, 1837; taught from '57 to '66 at Millville, N. J., 
Monticello, N.Y., Petersburg, Y a., Woodbridge, N. J., Montgom- 
er3^ and Aurora, N. Y.; recently Professor in Parsons Col- 
lege, Iowa ; his permanent address is reported to be Elk Yiew, 
Chester count3^ 

Andrew Cross Trippe, A.M., Baltimore, 3/rf.— Lawyer; born 
at Baltimore, November 29, 1839; entered Sophomore, second 
term; studied law and was admitted to the bar November 28, 
'60 ; entered the Confederate army as a private, and participated 
in all the battles in which his regiment, which was attached to 
the 2d Corps (Stonewall Jackson's;, was engaged; was wounded 
at Gettysburg ; promoted to be a Lieutenant of Artillery; re- 
turned to Baltimore after the close of the war and resumed his 
profession ; has held various offices under the Cit}' and State 
governments, and is a director in several institutions of public 
utility and charity. 

*Edward Newton Yansant. — Lawyer; born at Yardleyville, 
August 15, 1834; Honorary Oration; Franklin Hall Orator, '59; 
died in Philadelphia, October 17, '63. 

*Henry Clay Yincent — From Northumberland count}^ ; born 
September, 1835; after graduation taught at Selinsgrove one 
year, and also at Berrysburg, where he studied law; died at 
Milton, November 4, '58; interred at McLwensville. 

Rev. John Calhoun Wilhelm, Petersburg, Huntingdon Go. — 
Born at Fannettsburg, P"'ebruary 13, 1835; taught at Bath one 
year; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '61 ; licensed 
in '61 ; preached two j^ears in Bradford count}'-, one year in Wil- 
liamsport, Md., '63-4; enlisted in '64 in 203d Regiment Pa. Yol- 
unteers; was chaplain 45th U. S. colored troops in Texas from 
February to December, '65 ; since then has preached in New 
Jersey and central Pennsylvania; at Petersburg since '70; in '71 
he read a poem before the Alumni Association. 



Ahnnni — Class of iS^y. 51 

Rev. Washington Orr Wright. A.M., Milesburg^ Centre Go. 
— Bom in Ballymoney, Ireland, June 12, 1826; entered Sopho- 
more; studied at Princeton Theological Seminary, '59-62; or- 
dained at Phillipsburg, June 15, '64; pastor at Milesburg since 
'69. 

CLASS OF 1858. 

Neilson Abeel Baldwin, A.M., M.D., Brooklyn., N. Z.— Bora 
on Long Island, February 28, 1839 ; graduated at Medical De- 
partmeut of Yale College, '61 ; Surgeon ItSd N. Y. Regiment, 
'61-5; since '65 in practice in Brooklyn; and now holds the office 
of Metropolitan Police Surgeon, 407 Adelphi Street ; member of 
Kings County Medical Society ; Fellow and Treasurer of the 
American Academy of Medicine. 

Rev. William Henry Cain, A.M. — From Cedar Grove, Pa. ; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '61 ; ordained 
evangelist by Presbytery of California, October, '63 ; pastor of 
several churches; missionary of American Sunday School 
Union, San Francisco, '71-2 ; in Westchester county, N. Y., July 
'73-4, in the service of the American Sunday School Union. 

Rev. John Wesley Cline, A.M., Harmony., N. J. — Born at 
Harmony ; taught from graduation ; at Drew Theological Semi- 
nary, '68-9 ; at Boston M. B. Theological Seminary, '69-70 ; 
preached in Vermont Conference, April, '70-2 ; and in New 
Hampshire; in '77, entered the Presbyterian ministry. 

Rev. Selden Jennings Coffin, Ph.D., Easton. — Born at Og- 
densburg, N. Y., August 3, 1838 ; English Salutatorian ; taught 
near Bloomsbury, N. J., and in Towanda, '58-61 ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '64 ; licensed to preach, April 
20, '64 ; ordained by Presbytery of Lehigh, January 6, '74 ; tutor, 
'64-6; adjunct Professor, '66-72; Professor since '72; in '73-6, 
he drew the charts and completed the posthumous work of Prof. 
James IT. Coffin, on the Winds of the Globe ; received Ph.D. 
from Hanover College in '76 ; Fellow of American Association 
for the Advancement of Science; Class Secretary ; Secretary of 
the Alumni Association since '59. 

Rev. Oliver Stone Dean, Milford., Mass. — Born at Patter- 
son, N. Y. ; Valedictorian ; Principal of the Susquehanna Colle- 



52 Tlie Me)i of Lafayette. 

giate Institute inTowanda, '59-61 ; studied theology at Piiaceton 
Theological Seminaiy, '61-3 ; entered the ministry of the Con- 
gregational church ; ordained at Roxbur}', Conn., July 6, '64 ; 
preached at Roxbury four years; at Kalamazoo, six years; at 
Indianapolis, four years ; Vice-President of the Triennial Con- 
gregational Convention, held at Chicago, '70 ; preached at Mil- 
ford since January, "17. 

Rev. William IIawley Dean, JE'o.s/ OoMand^ CaL- — Born at 
Patterson, N. Y., July 9, 1833 ; taught in Towanda, '59-61 ; grad- 
uated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '63; ordained at A ma- 
gausett, L. I., May 3, '64 ; pastor of the Congregational chui'ch, 
Bridgewater, Conn,,'66; preached at Orange Centre, Conn., '71-6; 
at East Oakland since '76. 

Frank Latta Du Bois, A.M., M.l)., A>(r London^ Chester Co. 
— Surgeon U. S. Navy; born at New Ijondon, October 21, 1837; 
entered Sophomore class and graduated with an Honorary Ora- 
tion; graduated at Medical Department of University of Penn- 
sylvania, March 13, '62; entered the U.S. Naval service in March, 
'62, and during the war was first attached to the Flying Squad- 
ron in the Bahamas; then at Chicago, and then on the lower 
Mississippi; since the war he has been stationed at the Chelsea 
Hospital, Mass., Philadelphia Navy Yard, Panama, Callao, 
Arica, Pensacola, Key West, Erie, and recently in Paris; was 
one of the two officers saved, when his ship, the Fredonia, was de- 
stroj-ed by the earthquake and tidal wave, at Arica, Peru, Au- 
gust 13, '68. 

Isaac X. Grier, A.M., Danmlle. — Lawyer; born at Danville, 
December 27, 1835; Secretary and Treasurer of Susquehanna 
and West Branch Telegraph, '58-9; admitted to the bar of Mon- 
tour county in '61, and in constant practice since. 

Edgar Wilson Hays, Bunker Hill., 111. — Lawyer; born in 
Philadelphia ; entered Sophomore class ; taught two years ; served 
as a private in 7th Regiment Pa. Reserves until discharged, be- 
cause of ill health; admitted to the bar at Carlisle, August, '65; 
practiced in Missouri, '65-7 ; in Bunker Hill ever since; on his 
return from a professional visit to California, in February, '70, 
he was shipwrecked on the southern coast of Lower California; 
prominent in the politics of Illinois, in the Republican party. 



Alumni — Class of i8jS. 53 

Charles Stewart McCormick, A.M., Lw:k Ho rev Lawyer; 

born at Lock Haven, November 5, 1835; studied Jaw in the office 
of C G. Furst, Esq,, Lock Haven; was admitted to the bar of 
Clinton county, September 15, '60, where he has since continued 
in active practice; was Master Orator in '61; Prosecuting At- 
torney, '65-8 ; in '78, the Anniversary Orator at Dickinson Semi- 
nary; he is a Director of schools for the city of Lock Haven, 
Sunday school Superintendent and an elder in the Presbyterian 
church. 

Jacob Augustus Miller, A.M., M,D., Harrisburg. — From 
Lancaster; graduated at Medical Department of University of 
Pennsylvania, 1861; assistant phj^sician in the State Lunatic 
Hospital, '61-2 and '62-4; acting Assistant Surgeon 2d Rhode 
Island Inftuitry in the summer of '62; since '66 engaged in Har- 
risburg as a druggist. 

Rev. Clark Salsvion, A.M., Prairie City, III. — Born at 
Fowlersville, Columbia county, January 11, 1827; before enter- 
ing college he was a farmer and clerk ; Latin Salutatorian ; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '62; preached 
from '62 to '76 in Northern Pennsylvania, at Wyalusing, Orwell, 
Rome and Meshoppen; since '76 at Prairie City. 

Granville Brobst Slough, M.D., South JSaston. — From South 
Easton; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '61; Assistant 
Surgeon in the U. S. Navy, on the "Vincennes," '61-5; since '65, 
practicing in South Easton. 

CLASS OF 1859. 

Rev. Benjamin Gilbert Benedict, A.M., Brooklyn, E. Z>., 
N. Y. — Born at Patterson, N. Y., December 6, 1838; graduated 
with Philosophical Oration ; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '66 ; ordained at Hopewell, N. Y., October 24, '66 ; 
pastor of the Reformed Dutch church of Canastota, N. Y., '70-1 ; 
from '71 at Elmira and Washingtonville ; since '77, teaching in 
Brooklj-n, East District. 

James Penny Boyd, A.M., Philadelphia. — Born near Fairfield, 
Lancaster county, December 20, 1836 ; Valedictorian ; admitted 
to the bar at Lancaster, May, '62 ; Notarj- Public ; served as a 
private in Pennsylvania Militia ; practiced in Lancaster three 



54 Ilie Men of Lafayeiie, 

years, '62-5 ; associated with Hon. Tbaddeus Stevens, '64-8 j 
Secretary of Congressional Committee on Reconstruction, '66-8 ;, 
on the 8taft of the Philadelphia Press., '68, and managing editor 
in '70 ; editor of People's Journal^ 'TO-6 ; now chief clerk in the 
office of the Naval Officer, for the port of Philadelphia ; Master 
Orator in '62; Ahimni Poet, '69; Alumni Orator, '74. 

* Joseph Caotles — Born in Juniata county, May 20, 1836; 
reared at Torbotville ; entei'ed Sophomore ; taught at Prompton 
and Dewart, while studying law at Milton in tlie office of ex- 
Governor Pollock : was First Lieutenant in the Tth Regiment of 
Pennsylvania Cavalry, and died in service, March IS, '62, at 
Mumfordsville, Ky, ; interred at Warrior Run, Pa. 

* Henry Clay Dentler. — Law^^er ; from McEwensville ; Lieu- 
tenant in Penns\dA'ania Infantry, and Aid-de-Camp ; First Ser- 
geant 4tli N. Y. Artillery; died at liOck Haven in the autumn of 
"71. 

Joseph Charles Ferriday, A.M., Natchez^ Miss. — Born in Con- 
coi'dia parish, Louisiana, April 5, 1841 ; he was in the office of 
the Pennsylvania Railroad at Tyrone and Altoona, '61-6 ; and 
has since had charge of the family plantation at Concordia, and 
is a member of the Police Jury of the parish. 

William Calvin Ferriday, A.M., Honth Bethlehem. —Born in 
Concordia parish, Louisiana, November 13, 1838; studied at 
Princeton Theological Seminary ; ordained evangelist b}* Presby- 
tery of Carlisle, Pa., September, '62 ; pastor at Middletown ; 
chaplain 121st Pennsylvania Lifantry, '62-3 ; inbusinessat South 
Bethlehem since '67, excepting a period of three years' residence 
in Europe, in '73-5. 

*Rev. John Fowler, A.M. — Born at Holraesburg, November 
18, 1835; entered Sophomore; Salutatorian ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary ; preached a short time in Ver- 
mont, Norristown and Bensalem, Pa. ; at Aurora, N. Y., in '63 ; 
died at Holmesbui'g, November 30, '66. 

Thomas Bradun Gillespie, Princijno, Md Born in Cecil 

county, Maryland, August 12, 1838 ; received from Delaware 
College in second term. Junior ; since graduation he has been 
engaged as a farmer near Port Deposit. 



Alumni — Class of i8jg. 55 

Joseph Henry Hays, A,M,, M.D., Lock Haven. — From Mc- 
Ewensville; was Surgeon of the 90th Pa, Regiment; and in 
practice at Lock Haven since '65. 

Frank Davis Hetrich, A.M., Say\ Francisco^ GaL — Born in 
Easton, October 19, 183*9; enlisted in April, '61, and served as 
Lientenant in the 9th Pa. Infantry ; appointed Assayer at Den- 
ver in August, '63 ; transferred to Carson Mint December 10, 
'69 ; since October 1, '74, Refiner and Assayer at the San Fran- 
cisco Mint ; in '75 he was appointed, with Prof. Rogers, of Phila> 
delpliia, by the Secretary of the Treasury, to erect and put into 
operation tlie new Refiner}^ of Metals connected with the San 
Francisco Mint; in the accuracy and perfection of its machinery 
it is unsurpassed, and it has been pronounced by expert machinists 
and savants, a credit to American genius. 

Joseph Martin, Easton. — Born in Mt. Bethel, June 29, 1830; 
entered Sophomore ; has taught constantly since graduation : 
and since '67 has been Associate Principal of the Easton High 
School. 

*Henry Stothofp. — Teacher; from Flemington, N. J.; private 
in Company H, 3d N. J. Regiment; died at Fleraington in May, 
'62, from disease contracted in the war. 

Hampton Carson Watson, A.M., Brookville, Jefferson Co. 
— From Watsontown ; in military service as private in the 125th 
Pa. Regiment; agent of the Philadelphia and Erie railroad. 

Jacob Weygandt Weaver, Easton. — Born in Plainlield, North- 
ampton county, June, 1837 ; reared in Easton; ever since gradu- 
ation he has taught in Easton, and since '65 has been Principal 
of the Male Department of the Borough High School ; in the war 
he served in the emergency, in the 5th and 38th Pa. Militia. 

James Raymond Weeks, A.M., Carmel, N. Y. — Lawyer; born 
at Carmel, September 30, 1838; entered in the middle of Fresh- 
man year ; admitted to the bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.; graduated 
in law at Columbia College, '61 ; engaged in real estate practice 
and farming. 

*JoHN Grier Williamson, A.M. — Lawyer; from Slate Hill, 
York county; entered Sophomore; met with considerable suc- 
cess in life; died at West Bangor, York county, February 21, '72. 



ot) lite Men of Lafayette. 

Rkv. Alueut .loiiN WiNTKHioK, 'Vmd linn^ Moxroc Co.^ (/fiio. 
— Born at Treves, Prussia, 1822; came to the United States in 
ol; joined Rev. 0, R. Gregory's church, at Oneida, N. Y.; en- 
tered Sophomore; graduated at Princeton 'l^lieok>gical Seminary, 
'(52; ordained June 18, '62; has preached chietly to German con- 
gregations; in Luzerne county in '02; in California in 'fiS ; in 
Jeftersonville, N. Y., '64-9; Carlstadt and Orange. N. J., Klmira, 
N. Y., and since 'tt in Oliio. 

CLASS OF I860. 

Alanson Benedrtt, a.m., Flono, ///.—From Patterson, New 
York ; was a private in a New York Reginu ut, and in the 6th 
Michigan liil'nntiy ; for some years past a druggist in Piano. 

Smith Green Blytue, A.M., M.l)., 2\iora Springs, Floyd Co.^ 
Joiva. — Born at Cranberry, New Jersej'', November 6, 1841 ; 
Freshman year in University' of Indiana; was ('aptainin the 1st 
New Jersey Regiment; twice wounded; taught in Hopewell, 
Indiana, '64-6; studied medicine in Belvidere, New Jersey; at- 
tended lectures at Ohio Medical ('ollege, '66-1, and Bellevuo 
Hospital Medical (\)lK'ge, '77-8 ; {)racticed medicine in Iowa since 
March 1st, '(;7. 

Smith 1'attehson G.vi/r, St. Iahii's, J/o. — Lawyer ; born in 
Lancaster count}', November 23, 1838; entered Sophomore; 
graduated with Honorary Oration ; was Cajjtain 122d Pennsylva- 
nia Infantry, '62-3; admitted to the bar of Ijancaster county, 
September, '63 ; ;ind for l]\e last ten years has practiced in St. 
Louis. 

John Baker Hinkson, A.M., (7)f?«/er.— Lawyer ; born near 
Chester, October 2, 1840 ; graduated with an Honorary Oration; 
studied laAV at Media, '60-3, and was admitted to the bar of Del- 
uware county, August, '63 ; is an elder in the I'resbyterian church. 

Henuy Thomas Lee, A.M., Los Angeles, Cal. — Lawyer; born 
at Glen Cove, Long Island, N. Y., July 28, 1840; early home at 
(^roton Falls, N. V. ; entered Freshman class in second term ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; Tutor in '60-1 ; enlisted in the 4th Regiment 
New York Heavy Artillery, and served through the war, most of 
the time as an Aide on the statf of General Houbleday, retiring 
in '65 with the rank of Major; Professor of Rhetoric, '65-7; 



Alumni — Class of i860. 57 

then studied law in the office of his uncle in New York, and 
practiced in that city a number of years, spending occasional 
winters in France and Mexico. His health requiring a permanent 
change of climate, in "15 he settled in Los Angeles, where he is 
in active practice, making land titles his specialty. In 'G6 he 
delivered the address commemorating the services of the Alumni 
in the War for the Union, which was published by the Trustees. 

Rev. Benjamin Franklin Patterson, A.M., Pottsville. — Born 
in Columbia county, March 28, 1835; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary in '63 ; preached in Atsion, Xew Jersey, 
'64-5 ; since '65 he has been Superintendent of the schools of 
Pottsville ; in '78 be copj^righted a Geological Chart. 

John Brainerd Patton, A.M., M.D., Millville. — Born in 
Northumberland county. Pa., April 9, 1832; entered college Sep- 
tember, '53; absent several years, teaching in Pennsylvania; 
Second Lieutenant and Quartermaster of the 2d Pa. Militia in 
'62; County Superintendent of Schools of Columbia county. Pa., 
'63; in Montana Territory, '65-8 ; County Treasurer of Beaver 
Head county, '66-7; in gold mining and druggist; graduated in 
medicine at Philadelphia Universit}-, '69; since '69, practicing in 
Columbia county. Pa. 

Rev. George John Porter, N^eivark, Del. — Born at Colerain, 
Ireland, August 24,1834; entered Sophomore, having pursued 
the Freshman 3'ear at Davidson College, N. C; studied at Theo- 
logical Seminary in Columbia, S. C, '60-3 ; Chaplain in the Con- 
federate army one ^ear, '64-5 ; preached at Slatington some years, 
and since July, '71, at Newark. 

Augustus Raymond, A.M., New York City — Born at Bed- 
ford, N.Y., 1839 ; admitted to New York bar. May, '62, but never 
practiced ; engaged, with his brother, in extensive mercantile 
business, at the corner of Fulton and Nassau streets. 

Rev. Robert Barber Youngman, A.M., Easton. — Born at 
Danville, November 18, 1836; Valedictorian; Tutor, '60-3 ; Ad- 
junct Professor of Latin and Greek, '63-8; Professor of the Greek 
Language and Literature since '68, and Clerk of the Faculty 
since '60; he studied theology privately with the late Rev. John 
Graj^, D.D., of Easton, and was licensed by the Second Presby- 



58 The Men of Lafayette. 

tery of Philadelphia, April 20, '64; ordained b}^ the Presbyter}- 
of Lehigh, January 6, 'H. 

CLASS OF 1861. 

Moses Norval Appleget, A.M., Easton — Law3'er ; born iii Sus- 
sex county, N. J.; entered Sophomore ; Latin Salutatorian ; Justice 
of the Peace; tutor in '62-3; admitted to the bar at Easton, 
April 23, '62; practiced in Easton and Oil City; since '70, en- 
gaged in mineral surveys. 

Fredeeick Augustus Kauch Baldwin, A.M., AUentown. — 
Lawyer; born at Bloomfield, N. J., February 7, 1842 ; entered 
Sophomore; admitted to the bar of Lehigh count}^, August 8,'6o; 
serA^ed as private in 5th Pa. Militia, September, '62; graduated 
at Law Department of Harvard College, '64; since '64, in con- 
tinuous practice at AUentown. 

Joseph Barrett, A.M. — Eatonah, Westchester Co.^ N.Y. — 
Born in Bedford, N.Y., May 25, 1840 ; he never engaged in pro- 
fessional life ; taught for a time ; in '64-6 was connected with the 
U. S. Internal Eevenue service; was thrice elected School Com- 
missioner for the Third District, Westchester county, '66-75 ; 
has since been a farmer, and for ten years Secretary of local 
Farmers' Club ; one of the founders of the Westchester County 
Historical Society, before which he has read several papers on 
local history. 

Rev. Newton James Conklin, A.M., Goui-erneu?', N. Y. — 
Born at Mount Morris, N, Y., November 2, 1834; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminarj^, '64 ; licensed by Presbytery of 
New Brunswick, '64 ; District Secretary of the American Tract 
Society for the State of New York, '64-6 ; ordained by Presbj- 
terj' of St. Lawrence, '66 ; pastor at Gouverneur, since '66 ; 
Stated Clerk of his Presbyter^^ since '70. 

*Frangis M. Cruikshank Born at Cecilton, Maryland, No- 
vember 16, 1841 ; entered Sophomore class from Delaware Col- 
lege ; graduated with Honorary Oration ; engaged in theological 
study at home, Protestant Episcopal church ; went to the West 
Indies, and during the return voyage contracted yellow fever, and 
died in quarantine, in New York harbor, '63. 



Alumni — Class of 1861. 59 

*LuTHER Davis. — Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in 1843 ; 
Valedictorian ; taught one year ; then enlisted in the 9th New 
Jersey Regiment, and was Regimental Clerk ; in '63, his health 
failing, he started for his home in Phillipsburg, but died on the 
wa}', on board the transport, August 20, '63. "Young in years, 
a veteran Christian." 

*Daniel S. Dusinberre, A.M. — Teacher ; from Bedford, New 
York ; Principal of the Bedford Academy seven years, where he 
died of typhoid fever, June 29, '70. 

Samuel L. Fisler, A.M., Eaatov. — Born in Gloucester county, 
New Jerse3' ; prepared for college at the Edgehill school in New 
Jersey-, and at Academia, in each of which he was an assistant 
teacher; graduated with Honorar}^ Oration; taught at Towanda, 
'61-5 ; on account of failing health he was compelled to abandon 
preparation for professional life, and became superintendent of 
lumber manufacturing at Bear Creek, '65-9; was the first Presi- 
dent of the Young Men's Christian Association of Easton ; since 
'69 has superintended the improvement of the college grounds 
and the construction of the new buildings, and since "73 has been 
Treasurer of the college. 

Howard Ralston Hetrich, A.M., St. Joseph., Mo. — Journalist; 
born in Easton, in 1843; served in the war in the 4th Regiment, 
and as Lieutenant of 196th, and as Corporal of 129th Pennsylva- 
nia Regiment ; admitted to the bar at Easton, November 21, '65, 
and located in Knoxville, Tennessee ; discontinued practice and 
removed to Los Angeles in '73, and to St. Joseph, Missouri, '74, 
where he has since been on the editorial staff of the .S^. Joseph 
Daily Herald. 

Thomas McCamant, A.M., i/arr/.s-6urcy.— Lawyer ; born in 
Antis township, Blair county, Julj^ 29, 1840 ; entered Sophomore 
class; admitted to the bar of Blair county, '64; Lieutenant of 
125th Pennsjdvania Infantry; for ten years chief clerk in the 
office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, and Deputy Secre- 
tary of the Commonwealth since June, '78. 

Clinton W. Neal, Bloomsburg. — Born at Bloomsburg, Novem- 
ber 9, 1839; entered Sophomore class; First Lieutenant and 



fiO The Men of Lafayette. 

Regimental Quartermaster lo2d Pa. Regiment, '62-3 ; engaged in 
coal and Iron business since '63. 

*RoswELL Southard Parker. — Born in Lewistown, Novem- 
ber 26, 1837 ; entered Sophomore ; entered on law study in his 
brother's oflSce, at Lewistown ; Sergeant-Major 131st Pa. Regi- 
ment, and First Lieutenant, in November, '62; from a wound re- 
ceived at the battle of Fredericksburg he died, January 19, '63, 
aged 25. 

*Jacob Person, A.M. — Born in Harmony, N. J.; graduated 
with honor, delivering a poem ; private in 38tli Pa. Militia; ad- 
mitted to the bar at Baston, April 25, '65, but never practiced ; 
Adjunct Professor of Mathematics, Polytechnic College, Phila- 
delphia, '65-6 ; Principal of Belvidere Academy, N. J., where he 
died, March 19, '71. 

Rev. George Crowe Pollock, A.M., Neivark^ N. J. — Born in 
County Monaghan, Ireland, July 13, 1837 ; came to the United 
States at the age of 18; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '64 ; ordained, November, '64, as pastor of the Lyons 
Farms church, where he has since continued, his post-office being 
Newark. 

Rev. Stephen Wilson Pomeroy, A.M., Mount Unioji, Hunt- 
ingdon Co. — Born in Roxbury, Franklin county, 1836; entered 
Sophomore; First Sergeant 126th Pa. Infantry, '62 ; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminar}^ '64 ; ordained at McCon- 
nellsburg, November 6, '68; since '71, pastor at Newton-Hamil-, 
ton and Mt. Union, 

CLASS OF 1862. 

Frederick Corss, A.M., M.D., Kingston. — Born at Athens, 
Pa., January 16, 1842; entered Sophomore ; Latin Salutatorian ; 
graduated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, 
'66; School Director two terms ; permanent member of Medical 
Society of Pennsylvania. 

James Kerr Dawes, A.M., ^'asto?i. — Lawj-er; born in Easton, 
September 24, 1844; after graduating in the Law Department at 
Harvard in '64, he studied with Judge Maxwell, and was admit- 
ted to the bar at Easton, October 5, '65, and to the Pennsylvania 



Ahmmi — Class of 1862. 61 

Supreme Court iu March, '68 ; has been active in politics, beiug 
for eight years Chairman of the Northampton County Republi- 
can Committee, and for six years a member of the State Com- 
mittee ; Town Clerk of Easton, '66-'73; Assistant Assessor of 
Internal Revenue in '70 ; established the Eaaton Daily Free 
Press in September, '66, and after aj'^ear relinquished its control, 
reassuming it from August, '71, to December, '77 ; Postmaster 
since November, '71, and procured for Easton the advantages of 
the letter-carrier service. [History of Northampton County.] 

James Donnelly, A.M., Ifemphis^ 3Io — Born near Stackallen, 
in county Meath, Ireland, August 16, 1840. His parents settled 
in Franklin county. Pa., in '49. He entered Sophomore; taught 
eight years in Missouri, prepai'ing several students for Lafayette; 
was the Count}^ Superintendent of Public Schools in Scotland 
county, Missouri, '70-2, and '75-9, and editor of Scotland County 
Neivs since '75. 

William Gibson Field, A.M., Easton. — Lawyer; born in 
Easton ; graduated at Harvard College in '63, and also at Har- 
vard Law School, '65 ; admitted to the bar of Northampton 
county, November 21, '65; originator of Inter-Collegiate Asso- 
ciation ; for several years he filled the editorial chair in Brook- 
lyn, and was founder and editor of the Easton Daily Dispatch. 

Hervey H. Grotz, A.m., Bloomsburg. — Born at Bloomsburg, 

March, 1840 ; immediately after graduation he became teller in 
the First National Bank, and has since been cashier of a banking- 
company ; was also Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue. 

Reuben Haines, A.M., Elkton, Md. — Lawyer ; born at Brick 
Meeting House, Cecil count}^, Maryland, June 29, 1840 ; studied 
law under Senator John A. J. Cresswell; admitted to the bar, 
October 16, '64 ; State Attorney, '66-8 ; spent some time in Eu- 
ropean travel to regain impaired health. 

Rev. William Henry James, A.M., Springdale, Ohio. — Born 
at Deerfield, New Jersey, July 16, 1833 ; entered Sophomore ; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '65 ; pastor at 
Springdale, Ohio, since '65 ; has published sermons and a historical 
discourse. 



62 Tlie Men of Lafayette. 

*RoBERT M. Mann. — Born near Doyleston, September 12, 1842 ; 
entered Sophomore ; ten days after graduation, with several col- 
lege friends, he joined the 128th Pennsylvania Regiment; died 
October 23, '62, from the effects of a wound received at Antietam. 
" Graduated in July, enlisted in August, wounded in September ; 
in October, dead." 

*Geob,ge D. McIntyre, A.M., M.D, — Born iu Philadelphia, 
February 14, 1840 ; graduated at Medical Department University 
of Pennsylvania, '64; after he returned from the war as a sur- 
geon, he had charge of the Germantown hospital ; practiced iu 
Catasauqua (his home), and Hokendauqua, until July, '67 ; then 
in Quincy, Illinois ; in Missouri ; and finally in London, Kansas, 
where he died, October 14, "II, aged 31. 

Samuel Dare Mulford, Wilcox Wharf Charles City Co., Va. 
— Born at Pittsgrove, Salem county, New Jersey, September 9, 
1838 ; in '62 he entered the office of Hon. Furman Shepperd, in 
Philadelphia, as a student of law ; in '65 was elected Justice of 
the Peace in Camden county, New Jersey ; in '68, Mayor of 
Gloucester City, and in '69, Superintendent of Public Schools. 
In 1870, he removed to Charles City county, where he engaged in 
farming, and since '73 has held the office of a county magistrate. 

William Grove Meigs, A.M., Lebanor^. —C\\i\ Engineer; 
Born at Detroit, Mich., February 13, 1843 ; entered Sophomore; 
he was Sergeant in the 121st Pa. Regiment; engaged in civil 
engineering from '64 to ' 71, and since July, 71, has been resident 
engineer of the Lebanon Valley division of the Philadelphia and 
Reading Railroad. The names of four of his brothers occur in 
the following pages. 

Rev. James Michael Nourse, Athens, Butler Co., OJiio. — 
Born at Milroy, May 14,1840; reared in Washington, D. C.j 
Freshman and Sophomore in '57-9 ; absent a year, then Junior 
and Senior in '60-2; graduated at Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, '65 ; preached as missionary in West Virginia, '65-74; or- 
dained as an evangelist, October 10, '66 ; pastor at Athens, Ohio, 
since '74 ; he reports over four hundred persons added to the 
churches under his ministry. 



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Rev. Joseph Jewett Parks, A.M. — From Genimutown ; 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '63 ; licensed by 
the Second Presbytery of Philadelphia, April 20, '64; taught in 
Irving Female College, '65-7 ; preached in Monaghan church, 
Dillsburg, '66; Principal of Blairsville Female Seminary, '61-78. 

William Chambers Schultze, A.M., M.D,, Marengo^ Iowa, — 
Born in Ed in burg, Scotland; entered Sophomore class; gradu- 
ated with Honorary Oration ; graduated at Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College in '67, and early located in practice in Iowa : 
Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. 

Rev. Robert Scott, Santa Cruz, Gal — From Bridesburg ; 
native of Ireland ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, 
'65; ordained by Presbytery at Smithville, N. Y., October 25, 
'65 ; pastor at Moriches, L. I., '70 ; rector of the Episcopal 
church, Hyde Park, Mass., '71-4 ; since '75, rector at Santa 
Cruz. 

Edwin Shalter, A.M., Beading. — Lawyer; born in Oufcelawnee 
township, Berks county, December 1 8, 1 839 ; admitted to the bar 
of Berks county, August, '64; City Solicitor, '71-3; and has 
held several elective offices. 

Rev. Phineas Barber Van Syckel, Norton, Hunterdon Go.^ 
N. J. — Born at New Village, N. J., April 16, 1837 ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '65 ; pastor at Columbus, '65 ; 
ordained at Melville, N. Y., April, '67 ; preached at Melville three 
years ; Gibson, four years ; Beech Creek, two years; since '77 he 
has resided in Princeton, N. J. 

Henry M. Worrell, A.M., Hightstown, K, J. — Teacher ; born 
at Princeton, N. J., October 17^ 184J ; Graduated with Honorary 
Oration ; taught in Dover, '62 ; Orange, '63, and Hightstown, N* 
J., since '64. 

Benjamin C. Youngman, A.M. ,GlearJield. — From Miftlinburg ; 
entered Sophomore; Valedictorian; Tutor in Lafayette, '69; 
Principal of Public Schools at Hazleton and Mauch Chunk, and 
since '76, Principal of the Leonard School at Clearfield. 

CLASS OF 1863. 

William D. Brown, A.M., Glen Mills, Delaware Go. — From 
Rockdale ; in the emergency he served in the 5th and 38th Penn- 
svlvania Militia ; and has since been in mercantile business. 



64 The Men of Lafayette. 

*Rev. Moses Ayres Depue, A.M Born in Mount Bethel; 

first recipient of the Fowler prize, consisting of books to the 
value of $30 ; his essay was on Milton's Lycidas ; Master Orator, 
'66 ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '66 ; assistant 
to the Rev. Dr. Gray in the First Presbyterian church, Easton, 
'66 ; ordained July 11, '67, at East Boston, Massachusetts, where 
he was pastor two years ; preached at Lewisburg, '69 ; pastor at 
Schooley's Mountain, New Jei'sey, from "TO until his death, in 
Easton, October, "12. 

Stephen Van Buren Xachline, Easton. — Lawyer ; from 
Forks township; studied law in Easton, and was admitted to the 
bar, August 21, '65; in '76 was independent candidate for Con- 
gress in the Tenth District of Pennsylvania. 

William P. Smith, Hollidaysburg. — Lawyer ; from Hollidaj^s- 
burg ; served in the emergency in the o2d Battalion, Pennsylvania 
Militia. 

Rev. Francis M. Todd, A.M., Manassas, Va. — Born at Troy, 
Bradford county, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1839 ; from '63 to '74 
was engaged in horticulture and active business ; entering Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary in '74, he graduated in '77, and has 
since been pastor at Manassas. 

*Rev. Alexander Wright. — Born in Ireland, December 25, 
1831 ; came to America about '53 ; studied theology at Alleghe- 
ny, in the Seminary of the United Presbyterian church, and was 
licensed in May, '67, by the Reformed Presbyterian church. His 
health failing, he engaged in business in the West, and from 
limited resources gathered the sum of $2,500, which he bequeath- 
ed to the church. He died at Waukesha, Wisconsin, November 
21, '69, aged 37. 

*James Edgar Young, A.M.— Born at Trappe, Montgomery 
county, October 26, 1844 ; taught at Chestnut Level, and at 
Parkesburg, '63-4 ; private 5tli Pennsylvania Militia, '63 ; en- 
gaged in civil engineering, '64-74, most of the time as resident 
engineer of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Westeini Railroad, 
Morris and Essex Division ; proprietor of the Easton Pattern 
Works, '74-6 ; died in Easton, February 6, '76, aged 31. 



Aluvini — Cla&s of i86^. 65 

CLASS OF 1864-. 

Oscar Huntingtox Allts, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia. — Pi'om 
Westfield, New York; in 1806 he graduated at the Jefferson 
Medical College, in Philadeli)hia. in which city he has remained 
in active practice. 

James Frederick Ross Appleby, M.D., Georgetown., D. 0. — 
Born at Kingsport, Hawkins county, East Tennessee, June 10, 
1840; entered Sophomore; private in .38th Pennsylvania Militia; 
entered Princeton Theological Seminary in '64, but left because 
of ill health ; began medical study with a view to becoming a 
foreign missionary, but found his health inadequate; graduated in 
medicine at the University of Georgetown in '68 ; physician in 
charge of the Aims-House Hospital, '68-15; member of Medical 
Society' and Medical Association of D. C. 

Rev. Henry Levan Bunstein, A.M., Beech Creek., Clinton 
Co. — Born at Easton, August 18, 1844; private in 38th Pennsyl- 
vania Militia; studied law, and edited Free Press; in Union 
Theological Seminar}', '70-2; ordained, February 25, '73; pastor 
of Clinton Street Church, Philadelphia, until '76 ; and since '76, 
at Beech Creek. 

Charles Francis Chidsey, A.M., Easton. — Born in Easton, 
December 25, 1843; entered college in '59; left at the end of 
Junior year; entered the 129th Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was 
also First Lieutenant in 38th Pennsylvania Militia; President 
of the class; in Europe in '71-2; President of Board of Control 
of the Schools of Easton, "76-7 ; since Januar}', '78, President of 
the Lehigh and Eastern Railwaj" Company'. 

Rev. John Boyd Grier, A.M., Curwensville, Clearfield Co. — 
Born in Danville ; private in 38th Regiment Pennsylvania Militia ; 
studied theology at the Western Theological Seminary, '66-9 ; 
tutor, '69-72; adjunct Professor of Modern Languages, '72 ; or- 
dained at Lawrenceville, '73, and since '78 at Curwensville; au- 
thor of '' Studies in the English of Bun3ran,'' J. B. Lippincott & 
Co., 1872, pp. 150. 

Stephen Wilson Hays, Chanihersburg. — Lawyer; Lieutenant 
in 178th Pennsylvania Infantry ; private in 13th Pennsylvania 
Cavalry; for several 3'ears in the editorial office of the Franklin 
Repository \ since "70, in legal practice. 



66 TJic Men of Lafayette. 

Jacob Henry Holt, A.M., Eadon. — Born in South Easton, 
August 12, 1845; in the office of the Lehigh A^illey Raih-oad, 
'G4-1 ; since '68, clerk in the Eastou National Bank; Town Clerk 
of South Easton six years; member of Borough Council, Easton. 

Robert Jamison, A.M., Novristown, — Civil Engineer; born in. 
Warwick township, Bucks county, January 18, 1841 ; private in 
the 129th Pennsylvania Regiment ; was civil engineer on the ex- 
tension of the Morris and Essex Hail road ; assistant engineer 
during the construction of the Wilmington and Reading Railroad ; 
and in the same position on the Germantown Branch of the Phil- 
adelphia and Reading Railroad. 

Rev. Thomas Scott Long, A.M., Bloom><buri/, N.J. — Born in 
Chester county, July 29, 1838 ; graduated with Honorary Ora- 
tion ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '6t ; ordained 
and installed, May 7, '67 ; pastor at Pequea, Lancaster count}^, 
four years ; and since '71, pastor of Greenwich church, New 
Jersey. 

Rev. Nathaniel Smyth McFetridge, A.M., Germantoivn. — 
Born in Ireland, August 4, 1842 ; early home wasatCatasauqua : 
received the second Fowler Prize — Chaucer; graduated ai Western 
Theological Seminary, '67 ; pastor at Oil City, '68-74 ; was the 
first pastor of the Wakefield Presbyterian church at Ger- 
mantown, where he has been since '74 ; preached the Annual Ser- 
mon before the Brainerd Society' in '78. 

Emanuel Menline, A.M., Neio York Gity. — Born in Easton, 
February 4, 1845 ; graduated with Honorary Oration ; book-keeper 
in New York, '65-7 ; in mercantile business in New York since 
Januray,'67, at 122 AA^ater Street ; residence, .319 East 4th. 

*WiLLiAM Piper Montelius. — From Mifflinburg ; A^aledicto- 
rian ; candidate for the ministry ; died at Mifflinburg, June 16, 
'65, aged 23. 

James W. Moore, A.M., M.D., Easton. — Born in Easton ; Latin 
Salutatorian ; taught in Easton, '64-5 ; tutor, '66-8; graduated at 
the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in 
'69 ; adjunct Professor, '68-72, and since '72 Professor in ihe de- 
partment of Mechanics and Experimental Philosophy ; member 



Alumni — Class of 186//.. 67 

of the Northampton County Medical Society ; Fellow of the 
American Academy of Medicine, and of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science. 

Alfred P. Reid, A.M., West Chester. — Lawyer; from Parkes- 
burg ; Honorarj' Oration ; received the first Fowler Prize — 
Chaucer ; private in the 38th Regiment Pennsylvania Militia ; 
was admitted to the bar of Chester county, August, V)6 ; Master 
Orator in '6t ; elder in the Presbyterian church. 

John Witiierow Stewart, M.D., Rock Island, IlL — Born near 
Graceham, Frederick county, Maryland, January 21, 1844 ; en- 
tered Freshman, third term ; attended College of Physicians and 
Surgeons in New York, '65-6 ; graduated at Medical Department 
of University of Pennsylvania in '67 ; practiced two years at 
Columbus and Dayton, Ohio ; and since September, '69, has been 
in the hardware business at Rock Island, where he is an elder in 
the church, and for the past ten years superintendent of the 
Broadway Sunday School. 

CLASS OF 1865. 

*JosEPii Bruce Williams Adams. — Born at Washington, 
Daviess county, Indiana, May 25, 1842; served in the war as a 
private in the 5th and 38th Pennsylvania Militia; studied theolo- 
gjf at Princeton, '66-8 ; " graduated at Theological Seminary of 
the Northwest in '69; owing- to impaired health he engaged in 
business at Atwater, Minn.; while visiting his sister, at Prince- 
ton, N. J., he died at her house, July 4, "72, and was buried in 
Easton, in the plot of the Franklin Literary Society. 

Rev. Thomas Jefferson Aiken, A.M., Fort Deposit, Cecil 
Co., Md. — Born in Chester Valley, Chester county, April 1, 1841 ; 
served in 5th Pennsylvania Militia ; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminary in '68; ordained at Frazer, April 27, '69; 
preached at Frazer and Reeseville until January, '74; since "74, 
pastor at Port Deposit. 

Clarence Donaldson Bitidle, Jeanesville, Luzeriie Co. — Born 
in Danville ; engaged for a number of years past in the Jeanes- 
ville Iron JVorks and Machine Shops. 

Rev. William Glasgow Cairnes, Bart, Lancaster Go. — Born 
near Jarrettsville, Maryland. February IS. 1839; entered Sopho- 



68 The Men of Lafayette. 

more; Latin Salutatorian; taught at Tuscarora Acadeiu} one 
year; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminarj^, '69; licensed. 
June, "69 ; ordained and installed, September 14, '69; pastor at 
Cream Ridge and New Egypt, N. J., '69-76, and at Middle Oc- 
torara church since May 30, "77. 

Alfred Swartzlander GtODSHAlk, A.M., New Britain^ Buckie 
Co. — Son of Hon, Wm, Godshalk, M. C; born near Doylestown, 
December 18, 1842; Corporal in 38th and 5th Pennsylvania Mil- 
itia in '62-3; since '65, merchant-miller; elected School Director 
in '78. 

Isaac Platt Hand, A.M., WUkca-Barre. — Lawyer; born at 
Berwick, April 5, 1843; private in 38th Pennsylvania Militia ; 
studied law with Messrs. Hand & Post, Scranton ; admitted to 
bar of Luzerne county-, November 17, '69 : Clerk of City Council 
of Scranton two years ; since '72, in practice in Wilkes-Barre. 

Rev. William Wilberforce Heberton, A.M., Ulkton, Md. — 
Born at Berwick, November 9, 1846; entered third term. Fresh- 
man year; in the war he was Corporal of the 194th Pennsylvania 
Regiment; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '69; 
pastor at Brandj^wine Manor, and since '73, at Elkton. 

Rev. James Alexander McGowan, Shakopee, Minn. — Born 
in Philadelphia, August 5, 1843 ; in the war he served in the 5th 
and 38th Pennsylvania Militia; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminar3^, '68; ordained, September 15, '69 ; since '69, 
preached in Minnesota; editor of the Profedant Standard in '78; 
Secretary of the Minnesota State Sundaj' School Association. 

WiLLCAM Swan McLean, A.M., Wilke.'<- Bo rre.— Tjawyer; born 
at Summit Hill, Maj^ 27, 1844 ; private in 5th Pennsylvania Mil- 
itia ; Valedictorian; Master Orator, '68; admitted to bar of Lu- 
zerne county, August, '67 ; City Solicitor ; since '75, he has been 
Chairman of Board of Examiners of candidates for admittance to 
the bar. 

Rev. George Dufpield Meigs, A.M., Mansfield.^ Tioga Go. — 
Born at Gallipolis, Ohio, August 3, 1844; entered college, Sep- 
tember, '59, and was. absent two years during the war; served in 
the 26th Pennsylvania Militia; studied theology at Auburn 



Alumni — Class of i86j. fi9 

Seminary, '70-2; licensed, April, "70; ordained, September, "7 G ; 
tanght in Pottstown eight years; was civil engineer three 5^ears; 
and since '76, pastor at Mansfield. 

Rev. John Menaul, A.M., Lag una, New Mexico. — Born in 
County Tyrone, Ireland, December 28, 1834; private in the 5th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Militia; studied theology two j'cars at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, 'G5-7 ; Missionary to Corisco, 
Africa, two years ; missionary physician among the Navajo In- 
dians of Arizona, "70-5 ; and since '76, missionarj^ and Govern- 
ment teacher to the Laguna Indians of New Mexico, whoso 
language he has reduced to writing, and is now printing element- 
ary works of instruction. 

Rev. J AMES Roberts, A.M., 6'oaie6"f?7^e.-Born at Montrose, Scot- 
land, December 25, 1839 ; entered college in '60, and was absent 
one year; received Fowler Prize, Spenser; graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, '68; pastor of Coatesville Presbyterian 
church since '68; Stated Clerk of Chester Presbytery since '69 ; 
and from '78, Permanent Clerk of the Synod. 

James Napoleon Walker, A.M., Philadelphia. — From Phila- 
delphia; studied at Princeton Theological Seminai'y one year; 
taught in Philadelphia since '66. 

CLASS OF 1866. 

Adolph Frederick Bechdolt, A.M., Mankato, Minn. — Born 
in Baden, Germany, November 16, 1846; after graduation 
he pursued a post-graduate course in chemistry, and then 
taught in Towanda and Carversville ; was Professor of the Natural 
Sciences in Mercersburg College, '72-4 ; since '75, Superintendent 
of Schools of the city of Mankato. 

Robert Morris Bertolet, M.I).— From Oley, Berks county; 
graduated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, 
'68 ; continued his medical studies in Paris, and practiced some 
years in Philadelphia ; member of American Medical Association. 

Rev. John Cunningham Clyde, A.M., Frazer, Chester Co — 
Born in White Deer Talley, Lycoming county, October 22, 1841 ; 
entered Freshman in '60; after two years absence he resumed his 
course in '63 ; private in 72d Illinois Regiment, and Provost 
Marshal at Columbus Kv.; Latin Salutatorian; graduated at 



70 The Men of Lafayette. 

Princeton Theological Seminary, '69 ; ordained at Centreville. 
iowa, '69; pastor at Shenandoah, '70-2 ; and at Frazer since 72: 
author of History of the Irish Settlement, 198 pp., 12mo., 1876, 
and Reminiscences of the Irish Settlement, 400 pp., 12mo., 1879. 

Rev, Leighton Wilson Eckard, A.M., Abington,, Montgomery 
Co. — Son of Prof. J. R. Eckard, D.D. ; born at Savannah, Geor- 
gia, September 23, 1845; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminar}', '69 ; Master Orator in '69 ; Missionary at Chefoo. 
Province of Shantung, China, '69-74; since January 1, '75, pas- 
tor of Abington church. 

James Perry Elliott.— Lawyer ; from Plain Grove, Lawrence 
county ; entered Junior class ; studied law at the ITniversity of 
Michigan, and practiced for some years at Elkhart, Indiana. 

George Ringgold Kaercher, A.M., FollsviUe. — Ijawyer ; born 
at Pottsville, November 1, 1845 ; in partial course from .January, 
'65, to June, '66 ; received Fowler Prize — Bunyan, and the Pil- 
grim's Progress ; studied law at Pottsville ; admitted to the bar 
November 15, '68 ; District Attorney of Schu3'lkill count}-, Jan- 
nary, '75, to January, '78 ; noted for his successful official prose- 
cution of the "Mollie Maguire" trials. 

Rev. George Troxell Keller, A.M., Tunkhannoclc. — Born 
at Easton, May 27, 1844 ; private in the 5th Pennsylvania Militia ; 
Valedictorian ; studied theology under Rev. Dr. Eckard, at La- 
fayette, and one term at Princeton Theological Seminary, 
class '70 ; licensed in '70; taught at Newton, New Jersey, '66-7 ; 
tutor at Lafayette, '67-9 ; Professor of English Literature in 
Iowa State LTniversity, '70-1 ; since '71, pastor in Tunkhannock. 

William McKenzie, A.M., M.D., Coirshohocken, Montgomer'n 
Co. — Born in Antrim county, Ireland, November 14, 1841 ; reared 
in Montgomery county ; taught at Newton and Bridgeton, New 
Jersey, '66-8 ; graduated at Medical Department of University 
of Pennsylvania, '71 ; member of Medical Society of Montgom- 
ery county ; Fellow of the American Academy'- of Medicine. 

Charles Miner Sitgreaves, Plamfield, N. J. — Born at Phil- 
lipsburg, New Jersey, July 20, 1847 ; son of Edwin Sitgreaves, 
of '40 ; was Superintendent of Schools of Hazleton, '68-9 ; taught 
until '72 ; in mercantile business until '78 : now in Railway Pos- 
tal service. 



Alumni — Class of 1866, 71 

Rev. Elijah Bradner Wells, A.M., Orange, Schuyler Co., 
N. r.— Born at Ridgebury, New York, May 12, 1840 ; reared in 
Shohola, Pike county, Pennsylvania ; graduated at Western The- 
ological Seminary, '69 ; pastor at Bethel, New York, two years; 
Tyrone, New York, five years ; since '76, at Orange. 

James Whitfield Wood, A.M., iJaston.—Bovn in Deckertown. 
New Jersey, January H, 1845; private in 38th Pennsylvania 
Militia in '63; engaged on the editorial corps of the Chicago 
Tribune, '66-7 ; Master Orator in '69 ; associate editor of Free 
Press, '67-71; was for two years Chairman of the Republican 
County Committee, and member of the State Central Committee ; 
editor of Warren Democrat, Phillipsburg, N. J., '72-4; since '71 
in the firm of Tippett & Wood, proprietors of Warren Boiler 
Works; and since December, '77, publisher of the Easton Daily 
and the Weekly Free Press. 

CLASS OF 1S67. 

Peter S. Bergstresser, A.M., Lykeiis, Dauphin Co.— Born 
in Lower Augusta township, Northumberland county, November 
2, 1836; entered college in '58; course interrupted by the war; 
First Lieutenant Company I, 177th Pennsylvania Regiment; 
Captain 1 92d Pennsylvania Regiment ; Principal of Berrysburg 
Seminary, '68-74 ; Principal of the Lykens High School since 
September, '74; Representative in the Pennsylvania Legislature 
in '68. 

Edward Payson Conklin, Flemington, N. J. — Lawyer; born 
at Boonton, New Jersey, August 10, 1846; entered Freshman, 
second term ; taught in Towanda and Flemington ; admitted to 
bar of New Jersej', '72, and Counsellor and Master in Chancery 
in '76 ; Director of the Flemington National Bank. [Biographical 
Annals of New Jersey.] 

Rev. Ezra Shive He any, Strasburg, Lancaster Co. — Born at 
Reiglesville, June 23, 1 839 ; Corporal in 135th Penns3dvania In- 
fantry ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary, '70 ; licensed 
April, '69; ordained. May, '71; pastor at Mt. Pisgah church to 
October, '72 ; at Centre chuich to April, '78, and since Novem- 
ber, '78, at Strasburg. 

Robert James Hess, A.M., M.D., West Philadelphia. — Born 
in Easton; private in " Miller's Battery," Pennsylvania Artiller3% 



72 The Men of Lafayette. 

'()3 ; gmduatod at Medical Depai'tment of University of PeiiusyJ- 
vania, '11 ; coutinued his medical studies in Europe in '74; since 
'14, assistant j)hysician in Dr, Kirkbride's Hospital I'oi' tlu; In- 
sane ; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. 

Rev. Samuel Loy Johnson, AM, Hannontj^ lintler (Jo. — 
Born in Madison township, Ferry count3\ February' 13, 1833 ; 
Sophomore year at Washington College, Pennsylvania ; Junior 
and Senior at Lafa3'ette; graduated at Western Theological Semi- 
nary in '10; licensed b}' Presbytery of Carlisle, June, '()9; or- 
dained by Presbytery of Butler, November 15, '10, and installed 
pastor at Zelienople, Mt. Nebo and Portersville, serving two 
years; since '12, pastor at Zelienople ami Mt. Nebo. 

John Hervey Kase, Philadelphia.— From Danville ; until '14 
he was Greneral Agent of the Danville, Hazleton and Wilkes- 
Barre Railroad, of which his father was President; when it passed 
under the control of the Pennsylvania Kailroad Company, he 
continued his connection Avith it in Philadelphia; is now engaged 
in insurance. 

Rev. Samuej. Woeman Knipe, Delaware Water Gaji. — From 
Columbia; from Jefferson College he entercnl Junior; |)rivate in 
2d Penns3dvania Militia in '63 ; graduated at Western Theological 
Seminary, and immediately became pastor of the Mountain 
church at the Delaware Water Gap ; an enthusiastic naturalist. 

John Michael Pfouts, Mount Holly., N.J. — Teacher; born in 
Lycoming count\', March 5, 1849; entered Sophomore; Latin 
Salutatoriau; Fowler Prize — English Translations of the Bible; 
studied law, never practiced ; taught in Ciiesterconntv two years ; 
in mercantile business in Philadelphia, '12-3 ; Sui)erintendent of 
Public Schools of Mount Holly, '13-5; now I'rineipal of Mount 
Holly Academy'. 

Rev. Lindley Charles Rutter, Jr., A.M., Hopewell Collon. 
Wo7'ks, Chester Co. — Born at Chestnut Level, November 1, 1841 ; 
entered Sophomore ; graduated at Western Theological Seminar^-, 
'10; pastor at Sharon and Caldwell, Noble county, Ohio, from 
June, '10, to November, '12 ; and since "12, at his present charge, 
the Upper West Nottingham church. A vigilant worker in tlie 
temperance cause. 



Alnnini — Class of i86y, *l% 

Robert Henry Smith, A.M., Baltimore^ Md. — Lawyer ; frow). 
York county, Pennsylvania; served as Corporal in the-,194tb. 
Pennsylvania Regiment; received the second Fowler Prize; 
Valedictorian ; Master Orator i)i "70 ; since '70, has jn-acticed ii> 
Baltimore. 

CLASS OF 1868. 

Rev. Riohaed Aethur, A.M., Bowman^s Greek^ Luzerne Co. 
— Born in England ; early removed to Chestnut Level ; graduate<l 
at Western Theological Seminary-, '71 ; foreign missionary to 
Bangkok, Siam, '7 1-B ; preached at Harrisonville and St, Thomas, 
Pennsylvania ; and since '77, teacher and pastor at Bowman's 
Creek. 

Herbert LeGtRANd Bakee, A.M., Detroit^ Mich. — Lawyer ; 
born at Clifford, Susquehanna county, Pennsylvania, March 14, 
1846 ; entered Freshman class, third term ; received Fowler Prize 
for his essay on Dickens' Cricket on the Hearth ; studied law in 
Detroit, and was there admitted to the bar, April 30, '70, where 
he has since practiced ; Class Orator at the Decennial meeting in 
'78. 

Rev. James Welch Boal, Cairo^ Lhiion Co. — Born nearBelle- 
fonte, July 11,1838; entered Freshman, third term; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary in '71; preached at Saxton, 
Bedford county, until May, '7o ; and since '75, pastoi- of the 
Washington church. 

Alfred Brown, M.D., HellerUnen. — Born in Bethlehem town- 
ship ; graduated at Medical Department of University of Penn- 
sylvania, '71 ; since '71, in practice at Hellertown. 

Rev. William H. Filson, Rockdale Mills, Jefferson Co. — Born 
in Chester count}- ; received Astronomical prize ; graduated at 
Western Theological Seminary, '71; since "71, pastor in Jeffer- 
son county. 

Rev. Edwin Pember Foresman, Kylertoicn, Clearfield Co. — 
Born in Milesbui-g, Centre county. May 1, 1841 ; served in Co. 
H, 41st Pennsylvania Regiment, '63 ; assistant in Tuscarora 
Academy, '66; entered Junior class; graduated at Princeton 
Theological Seminar3\ 71 ; licensed June 10, '70 : preached at 



T4 The Men of Lafayette. 

Chilisquaque and Mooresburg, '71-2 ; at Schellsburg, Bedford 
county, '72, and became its pastor in '73, being ordained June 
10 ; preached at Saxton and Yellow Creek, Bedford county, '75-8 : 
pastor at Kylertown and Bradford since June 7, '78. 

Abram Paschal Garbek, A.M., M.D , C'oZu/H&m.— Born at 
Columbia, February 23, 1838 ; entered Junior class, elective 
course in Scientific Department ; assistant in Natural History, 
'68-70 ; graduated at Medical Department of University of Penn- 
sylvania in '72 ; assistant Surgeon in the State Lunatic Hospital, 
'72-5 ; then went to Pittsburgh, where he practiced a short time, 
until his health required him to seek a sub- tropical climate. He 
has been at Manistee, Florida, for the past two j^ears. 

John William Griggs, Falermn^ N. J. — Lawyer ; born at 
Newton, New Jersey, July 10, 1849 ; Latin Salutatorian ; studied 
law at Newton, '68-71 ; admitted to the bar, November, '71 ; and 
since, has practiced at Paterson ; licensed as counsellor in '74- 
member of the New Jerse}^ Legislature. '76-7. [Biograpliicnl 
Annals of New Jerse3^] 

Rev, Hervey Gulich, Hajicock, N. i/.— From Upi)er Mount 
Bethel, Pennsj-lvania ; studied law at Belvidere, New Jersey, in 
the office of Hon. J. G. Shipman (class of '38 ; ; practiced at Ho- 
boken ; then studied theology, and in '78 became pastor of the 
Congregational church at Hancock. 

Rev. Oscar Joshua Hardin, Tripoli^ Syria — Post O^ffice, 
Beirut. — Foreign missionary ; born at Newton, New Jersey, Sep- 
tember 30, 1845; entered Sophomore; graduated at Union Tlie- 
ological Seminary, '71 ; ordained as a missionary, October 10, '71 ; 
has four churches and sevei'al schools under his care. 

Abraham Budd Howell, A.M., Easton. — Law3^er ; born in 
Phillipsburg, New Jersey; he served in the war in the 1st New 
York Cavahy ; was wounded at Millwood, Virginia; Valedicto- 
rian; admitted to Easton bar, Januar3^27, '70; Republican nom- 
inee for Congress from 11th District in '72; Chief Burgess of 
Easton in '73. 

Rev. James Horner Kerr, A.M., Rural Valley^ Armstrong 
Co. — Born in Turbotville, April 3, 1847 ; taught at Cranberry, 



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New Jersey, "08-9 ; gi'aduuted at Western Theological .Seminary 
in "72; licensed at Berwick, April 19, '71 ; preached at I'ine Run, 
'72; ordained at McConnellsburg, May i, '73; preached at Mc- 
Oonnellsburg three years, and at Rural Valley since his installa- 
tion, June 29, '76. 

Charles McIntire, Jr., A.M., M.D., Easton. — Born in Rhihi- 
delphia ; graduated with Honorary Oration ; graduated in Medi- 
cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '73 ; assist- 
ant and adjunct Professor of Cheraistrj^ '68-74; member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers, and Fellow of the 
American Academy of Medicine. 

Michael Servetus Seip, M.E., M.D., Easton. — Born in Eas- 
ton, December 8, 1847 ; graduated as A.B., in '68; as M.E., in 
'70; superintendent of mines in Montana and Nevada, '70-73; 
graduated in Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, '76; since Januaiy, '77, he has been Assistant Physician 
in State Hospital for the Insane, Danville. 

Abraham Alexander Smith, A.M., M.D., New York City. — 
Born at Wantage, Nevv Jersey, March 25, 1847; graduated at 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College, '71 ; practicing )>hysician, 
and engaged in Demilt Dispensary since '72; lecturer on Thera- 
peutics and Clinical Medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- 
lege, '76. 

Rev. William Grove Stewart. Baker utown^ Alleglie^uj Co.— 
Born at Chaneeford, York county, November 5, 1840; served in 
an Independent Company of Pennsylvania Militia ; graduated at 
Western Theological Seminary in "71 ; and lias since been pastor 
at Bakerstown. 

CLASS OF 1869. 

Silas Wright Dewitt, A.M., Phillipsburg, N. J.—J.avfyer- 
born at Phillipsburg, December 4, 1844 ; admitted to the bar of 
Lycoming county, Pennsylvania, in '71, and to the bar of New 
Jersey in '73 : member of the Legislature of New Jersey three 
years, '77-9, and Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. [Bio- 
graphical Annals of New Jersey.] 



76 The Moi of Lafayettt. 

AiNDREW Clarkson Ftlton, Chanceford, York Co — Lawyer; 
from Chanceford ; served as a private in Pennsylvania Militia in 
Ti3 ; practiced in West Chester from '72-8. 

Robert ICvan James, A.M., Eadon. — Lawyer ; born in North- 
ampton coiint}^, August 9, 1848 ; at the end of Freshman 3^earin 
Lewisburg University, he entered Lafayette ; taught at Towanda? 
'69 ; at Nottingham Acadera}^, '70 ; Principal of the Easton High 
School, '71-2 ; admitted to the bar at Easton, in November, '72 j 
President of the Board of Control, '75 ; Representative in Penn- 
sylvania Legislature, '77-8. 

Rev. George Edward Jones, A.M., Baltimore, Md. — Born in 
Franklin county, February 7, 1842; served in the 126th and 
149th Pennsylvania Regiments ; received Fowler Prize and Latin 
Salutatory; taught one year at Stamford, Connecticut ; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, '73 ; pastor of Lower Brandy- 
wine church, Delaware, from June, '73, to July, '77 ; since, pastor 
of Broadwa}' church, in Baltimore. [Biographical Cyclopedia of 
Maryland.] 

Rev. Thomas Dale Logan, A.M., Meadville — Born at Alle- 
gheny City, January 29, 1851; entered Sophomore; taught in 
Pittsburg, '71-2 ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary, 
'74; licensed, April, '73 ; ordained, January 20, '75; pastor of 
the Second Presbyterian church in Meadville ; preaching there 
since, April, '74. 

Harmar Denny McKnioht, Pittsburg. — Born in Pittsburg, 
April 29, 1848 ; entered Sophomore in General Scientific course : 
took post-graduate course in mining ; book keeper in Third Na- 
tional Bank of Pittsburg from May, '70, to June, '77 ; Captain in 
18th Regiment National Guards of Pennsylvania, in strike riots 
in '77, through seven weeks of service ; is now proprietor of the 
Eclipse Steam Pump Works, 77 First avenue, Pittsburg. 

Woodruff McKnight, Pittsburg. — Born in Pittsburg, January 
11,1850; has held various positions in manufacturing business, 
and is now^ of the firm of Kay, McKnight & Co., belting, cord- 
age and machinery, at 80 Water street. 



Ahivini — Class of i86p. 77 

James Christian Russell, Bedford, — Law^-er; born at Bed- 
ford, January 12, 1850; engaged in civil engineering, '09-70 ; 
admitted to the bar, Mai'ch 31, "73. 

Rev. AValter Quincy Scott, A.M., Wooster^ Ohio, — Born at 
Dayton, Ohio, December 19, 1845; served in the war in the 4th 
Iowa Cavalry ; received the Junior Mathematical Prize; Vale- 
dictorian ; tutor and adjunct Professor of Latin, '69-74; studied 
at Union Theological Seminary, '72-3; ordained, February 15, 
'74; pastor of Arch Street Presbyterian church, Philadelphia, 
'74-8 ; in August, '78, he was elected Professor of Mental Science 
and English Literature in Wooster University. 

Robert Alpheus Sebring, Jerseii Shore^ Lycoming Go. — Boru 
at Jersey Shore, October 29, 1848 ; since graduation he has been 
engaged in mercantile business. 

J. Hume Smith, Philadeip}iia.' — Born in Lower Chanceford, 
York county, April 3,1847; graduated in General Scientific 
course ; taught from '69 to '71 ; in the publishing house of 
Ziegler & McCurdv, having charge of the Chicago branch at the 
time of the great fire, October 9-10, '71; since January, '73, in 
mercantile business at 1013 Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 

Frank Wells Stewart, A.M., Easton — From Easton; since 
graduation he has been engaged in wholesale mercantile business 
in Easton. 

CLASS OF 1870. 

Joseph Henry Brensinger, A.M., Phillipsburg, JSf. J. — Born 
at Ridle^^, Pennsylvania, February 20, 1846; Principal of Phil- 
lipsburg High School, '71-6, and Superintendent of City Schools 
since '76 ; before entering college he served through the war in 
124th and 97th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers, and was 
wounded before Petersburg, Va., May 18, '04. 

Richard William Dickinson Bryan, Garbondale. — Law- 
yer; born at Rye, New York, October 8, 1849; received As- 
tronomical Prize; after graduating, taught one year in West 
Chester; then was Astronomer on United States North Polar Ex- 
pedition, under Captain Hall, '71-73; prepared the narrative of 
the Expedition, under direction of the Navy Department, '74-7 ; 



'?8 The Men of Lafayette. 

admitted to the bar at Washington, D. C, June, 'Tfi ; he is now 
preparing a narrative of Captain Hall's expedition of '64-9. 

Rev. Charles Keeler Canfield, A.M., Ora/i^em7i!e,6'oZiim6ia 
(jo — Born at Stevensville, March 10, 1843 ; served three years 
in 141st Pennsylvania Volunteers — twice wounded ; graduated 
at Union Theological Seminary, New York, 'Y3 ; licensed, April 
18, '72; ordained, November 26, '72; pastor at Bowman's Creek, 
and Principal of Monroe Academy, '72-7 ; since January, '77, 
pastor at Orangeville and Principal of Orangeville Academy. 

LuciEN Wilson Doty, A.M., Philadelphia.— From Miftlin- 
town ; Latin Salutatorian ; tanght in Newton, New Jersej' ; 
studied law, and has been in practice several years in Philadel- 
phia ; office, 501 Chestnut street. 

"MoNATHAN Emmert— From Benevola, Md.; teacher in Mary- 
land and New Jersey; died at Benevola, March 12, '73. 

Rev. William Gemmill, Barney, Clearfield Co. — Born in 
Paisley, Scotland, June 7, 1839; Lieutenant in 148th Pennsylva- 
nia Regiment; was wounded at Chancellorsville ; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, "73 ; since November, '74, has 
been pastor of the Beulah Presb3fterian church. 

Joseph Johnston Hardy, A.M., Easton. — Born in England in 
1844; reared in St. Clair; received Junior Mathematical Prize ; 
Valedictorian; Tutor in Lafayette, "70-4; since '74, adjunct 
Professor of Mathematics. 

William Gray Heller, Easton. — Born in Easton, February 
14, 1849 ; General Scientific course; in the service of the Lehigh 
Valley Railroad as Lost Car Agent, September, '70, to Januar\-, 
'71 ; taught at Tunkhannock, '71-3; agent Delaware, Lackawan- 
na and Western Express Company since '74. 

Terence Jacobson, A.M., Brooklyn, N. y. — Born in Norway, 
June 21, 1844; reai'ed at Ypsilauti, Michigan; Sergeant in the 
5th New York Artillerj- ; graduated with Philosopliical 
Oration; taught at Hazleton one year; Professor of the English 
Language and Literature, Washington and Jefferson College, 
'71-2; since '72, Principal of Ward Schools in Brooklyn; resides 
at 24 Sterling Place. 



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Samuel Hlntzinger Kaercher, A.M., Fottsville. — Law^-er ; 
born at Oiwigsburg, September 28,1850 ; taught five years, being 
Principal of Pottsville High Scliool, 'T2-5 ; studied law in the 
office of George R. Kaercher, of '66, and was admitted to the bar 
of Schuylkill county, August 23, '15, and to the Supreme Court 
of Pennsylvania. March 18, "?8 ; Deputy District Attorney,'ir5-8. 

Frank Hammond Piatt, Tunkhannock. — Born in Tunkhan- 
nock ; graduated in General Scientific course ; Superintendent of 
Schools in W^'Oming county, "11-2; now in business at Tunk- 
hannock. 

James Wilson Piatt, A.M., Tunkhannock. — Lawyer : born 
at Tunkhannock, February 9, 1850 ; graduated in General Scien- 
tific course ; admitted to the bar, November 28, '71 ; District At- 
toinoy of Wyoming county. '75-8 ; has held several political po- 
sitions. 

Horace Roland, i^t;ac/i7!(7.— Lawyei- ; born in New Holland, 
September 26, 1848 ; on August 12, '72, he was admitted to the 
bar of Berks county, M'here he has since practiced. 

William Shippen Roney, A.M., Philadelphia . — Teacher ; from 
Belvidere, New Jersey ; Professor in Andalusia College, '71-5 ; 
studied law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar in '77 : 
but is still engaged in teaching. 

Alexander Hamilton Sherrerd, M.S., Philadelphia. — Chem- 
ist ; born in Scranton, February 2, 1851; graduated in General 
Scientific course, and pursued post-graduate course in Chemistry ; 
assistant in Chemistry, '71-2; chemist at Scranton Steel Works, 
and Moosic Powder Companj-, '72-7 ; and now with Baeder, 
Ad^mson & Co., 730 Market Street. 

Rev. David Jewett Waller, Jr., A.M., Bloomsburg.— Born 
at Bloomsburg, June 17, 1846 ; received Fowler Prize, "Addison;" 
Tutor in Lafa3^ette, 70-1 ; studied at Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, '71-2, and at Union Theological Seminarj'^, New York, 
'72-4 ; there graduated in '74 ; ordained November 30, '74; pas- 
tor of the Logan Square Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, 
'74-6 ; pastor at Orangeville, "76-7 ; since August, "77, he has 
been Principal of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg. 



80 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. James Hervey Wright, Hubhard, Trumbull Co.^ Ohio. 
— From York county ; studied theology at Allegheny ; licensed 
by Presbytery of Westminster, April 10, '72; ordained May 21, 
'73, at Hubbard. 

John Russell Youngman, Lock Haven.— Law yer ; born in 
Union county, December 25, 1848 ; admitted to the bar of Clin- 
ton county, December 10, '72. 

James Pattejison Ziegler, A.M., Philadelphia. — Born at 
Mount Joy, January 28, 1849 ; in his Senior year he left for 
Miami University with Professor Osborn, and there gi-aduated in 
'71 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '74 ; resident engineer of 
the Lake Erie and Evansville Railroad; division engineer of the 
Painesville and Youngstown Railroad, '71-2 ; on the corps of the 
Cincinnati Southern Railroad, '72-6 ; since '76. studying medi- 
cine in the University of Pennsylvania. 

CLASS OF 1871. 

Rev. John Stockton Axtell, Clyde, Sandusky Co., Ohio. — 
Born at Delaware, Ohio, May 16, 1846; prepared at Savannah 
and Hayesville, Ohio ; entered Junior; graduated at Western 
Theological Seminary, '74 ; licensed by Presbytery of Wooster 
at Fredericksburg, Ohio, April 23, '73 ; ordained at Plum Creek, 
Pennsylvania, by Presbj^ery of Blairsville, June 24, '74; Princi- 
pal of Georgeville Academy, '72 ; pastor at Homer City and 
Black Lick, Pennsylvania, July, '74, to September, '77 ; since 
January, '78, pastor at Clyde and Green Springs. 

Laird Howard Barber, A.M., Mauch Chunk. — Teacher; 
born in Union county, October 25, 1848; taught at Mt. Carmel, 
"72; since '72, Principal of Mauch Chunk High School. • 

Rev. Matthew Henry Bradley, Canonsburg Born at Mer- 

cersburg, June 30, 1852; there pursued Freshman and part of 
Sophomore year ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary, 
'74; ordained, June 10, '74, and installed pastor of Chartiers 
church, the oldest Presbyterian church in Western Pennsylvania. 

Rev. Edward Bryan, A.M., Petersburg, Clarion Go. — Born 
at Port Chester, New York, November 18, 1851; graduated at 



Alumni — Class of i8ji. 81 

Western Theological Seminaiy, 'Y5 ; and at Union Theological 
Seminary, '76 ; ordained, Jul}^ 15, '76, at Petersburg. 

Alexander Bryden, M.E., M.S., Pittdon. — Born at Carbon- 
dale, Luzerne county, July 2, 1850; pursued Technical course; 
from graduation to November, '78, he was Mining Engineer and 
Surveyor in the Pennsylvania Coal Company's mines, and has 
since been Assistant Superintendent of the Consolidated Bobtail 
Gold Mining Company, at Black Hawk, Gilpin county, Colorado. 

NoRRis Hunter Cone, M.E., Ward District^ Boulde?- Co., Col. 
— Mining in Colorado since 1871; now building a gold mill: 
his permanent address is care of his father, Rev. Revilo J. Cone, 
Bedford, X. Y. 

Rev. John Cowan, WilliMon, Vt. — Born at Parkesburg, 
March 26, 1848; entered Sophomore; graduated at I'nion Theo- 
logical Seminary, '75 ; ordained, May 25, "75; statvd supply at 
ICsscx aucl Williston, Yt., '75-. 

.James Camp Craavford, A.M., Marinette, Wis. — Teacher; 
born at Herrick, Bradford county; received Astronomical Prize; 
Principal of High Scliool at Athens. Pa., '72-6 ; ;it Marinette 
since '76. 

John Martin Crawford, M.A., Avondale, Cincinnati, Ohio. 
— Teacher; born at Herrick, Pennsylvania, October 18,1845; 
President of Microscopical Section of Cincinnati Society of 
Natural Histor\^; Specialty' Histolog}' ; Principal of Wyoming 
Institute, '71-2 ; since '72, teacher in Chickering Institute. 

Ben.tamin Douglass. Jr., A.M., Nen- York City. — Lawyer; 
born at Bedford, Long Island, September 24, 1849; entered 
Sophomore; studied at Columbia Law School, and practicing in 
New York since May, '74 ; office, 314 Broadway. 

Francis Woolworth Edoar, A.M., Easton. — Law3^er; born 
at Bridge Hampton, Long Island, N.Y., March 6, 1849; Tutor in 
Rhetoric and Elocution, '73-4; studied law from '71 to 74 in the 
office of Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick, of the class of '63, and at Harv- 
ard Law School, '72-3, and was admitted to the Easton bar Sep- 
tember 12, '74 ; and to the Supreme Court, March 26, '77. 



82 The Men of Lafayette. 

Thomas McKeen Fakquiiar, KM..^ Ea^toiu — Teacher, born 
in Lower Chanceford, York count}^, June 10,1849; taught in 
New Columbus Academj-, '71-2; in Collegiate Institute, Newton. 
N. J., "13; in Public Schools of Easton, 'T3 to present time. 

Rev. William Shouse Fulton, Oil City. — Born in Burgetts- 
town, April, 1851 ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary, 
'75; taught in Newton Collegiate Institute, "71-2 ; in Dunlap 
Creek Academy", "73-4 ; installed pastor, April 29, '75. 

Horace Pellman Glover, A.M., Mifflinburg. — Lawyer; born 
at Hartleton, December 10, 1852; cashier of .the Mifflinburg 
Bank from '72-7 ; admitted to the bar of Union county, March, 
'78 ; law firm of Mitchell & Glover. 

Rev. Fisher Gutelius, 3Ioscoiv, N. F.— Born at Mifflinburg. 
July, 1844 ; in military service in the war ; graduated at Union 
Theological Seminary, '74 ; Professor of English in Brooklyn 
Seminary, '72-4 ; pastor at Moscow, New York, since "74. 

Jonathan Moore Harris, A.M., /'fn'llipdiarg, X. -/. — Born 
December 3, 1851 ; studied law one year; and has since been 
engaged in the accounting department of the Central Railroad 
of New Jersey. 

Olin Frisbie Harvey, A.M., M.D., Wilkei^-Barre. — Born in 
Kingston, September 28, 1846 ; graduated at Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania in '73 ; President of Wilkes- 
Barrc School Board in '77 ; physician to the Luzerne County 
Prison, and one of the physicians to Wilkes-Barre City Hospital ; 
Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. 

Oscar Jewell Harvey, A.M., WiUcea-J^on-e. — Lawyer; born 
in Wilkes-Barre, September 2, 1852 ; admitted to the bar of Lu- 
zerne county, May 16, '76 ; taught in AVyoming Seminary, Kings- 
ton, Pennsylvania, '72-3 ; studied in Europe in '75-6 ; Captain 
of the Wilkes-Barre Fencibles, and Right Worthy Grand Warden 
of the Grand Lodge of OddFelloAvs of the State; in "72 founded 
" Tlie Harvey Prize for English" in Alma Mater. 

Rev. James Theodore Houston, liio de Janeiro, Brazil — Born 
in Ohio, January, 1847; prepared at Savannah Academy, Oliio ; 



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entered Junior ; graduated at the Western Theological Seminary 
in '74, and was ordained as a foreign missionary, sailing for Bra- 
zil in November, "74. 

John Bryson Hudson, Williamsport. — Born at Turbotville, 
Northumberland county, July 30, 1845; taught before entering 
college ; subsequently received his degree, and has since been en- 
gaged in teaching and book-keeping ; is now General Secretary of 
the Young Men's Christian Association. 

William St, George Kent, C.E., M.S., Phillipsbur<j^ N. J. — 
Born in Phillip^burg, August 1, 1853 ; engaged for a time in pa- 
per manufacturing, and has since been assistant superintendent of 
the Andover Iron Works; is a member of the American Institute 
of Mining Engineers. 

David Bennett Kim;, A.M., Eadon, — Born at Mount Pleas- 
ant, Westmoreland county, June 20, 1848; entered Soplioniore; 
Latin Salutatorian ; Tutor of Latin, '72-4; since '74, adjunct 
Professor of Latin ; Secretary' of the class. 

Bradley Wakeman Lewis, A.M., Timlhannock. — Lawyer; 
born in Tuscarora township, Bradford count}^, August 20, 1845; 
admitted to the bar of W3oming county", April, '74; has held 
various local offices, and is an elder in the Presbyterian church. 

Rev. Abram Wormas Long, A.M., Loicer Merion. — Born at 
Tinicum township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, September 27, 
1846; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '76; previ- 
ous to his entering college he taught at Jersey Shore, six years, 
and since graduation, in Chester Yalley Academy, N. Y.; pastor 
of Lower Merion church from April, '77, to the present time. 

James Alexander ]\IcKnight, A.M., Chamber f<burg Law- 
yer; born in Indiana county, June 3, 1849; studied law with 
Hon. Wm. S. Stenger, M. C, and was admitted to the bar of 
Franklin count3% June 4, '72 ; elected a Trustee of Lafayette in 

'77. 

William McMurtrie, M.E., Ph.D., Belvidere, N.J. — Bornin 
Oxford township, New Jersey, March 10, 1851 ; assistant Chem- 
ist and Chemist of the Agricultural Department, Washington, 



84 The Men of Lafayette. 

D. C, '72-8; Agent and Representative of Department of Agri- 
culture at the Paris Exposition, '78 ; received the degree of Doc- 
tor of Philosophy from Lafayette in '75. 

John Meigs, A.M., Ph.D., Fottdown. — Born at Pottstown, 
August .31, 1852; Tutor in Latin and Greek, '72-5, and adjunct 
Professor of Modern Languages, '75-6 ; Re-union Orator before 
Franklin Society in '75, on Evolution of Journalism ; in '7G, es- 
tablished, as distinctively prepai-atory to college, The Hill 
School, Pottstown, founded by his father; in '76, he received the 
degree of Doctor of Philosophy-, on the basis of an examination 
and thesis on the Nature and Age of the Augustus of Minucius 
Felix. 

Franklin Theodore Oldt, A.M., Lanark., III. — From New 
Berlin; born January, 1853; Principal of High School at Rock 
Grove, Illinois, '71-3 ; at Winnebago, Illinois, '73-5; and Super- 
intendent of Schools of Lanark since '75. 

William Baxter Owen, A.M., Eaaton. — Yiovn at Wysox, 
Bradford county ; entered Sophomore class ; received Fowle)' 
Prize— Burns; Valedictorian; Tutor, 71-4; adjunct Professor of 
Greek since '74 ; contributed notes to editions of Eusebius and 
Athenagoras, in the series of Douglass Christian Classics, and 
is the author of Historical Sketches of Lafayette College, pre- 
pared at the request of the U. S. Bureau of Education, and pub- 
lished by the Trustees in '76. 

Joseph Rogers Paull, A.M., Wheeling., W. T'a,— Lawyer ; 
born at Dunbar, Fayette county, December 9, 1848 ; entered Jun- 
ior class from Washington and Jefferson College ; studied at 
Columbia College Law School, New York City, '74-5: admitted 
to the bar September 18, '75. 

Rkv. John Findlater Pollock, A.M., i/e/rzcZere, A".J.— Born 
at Gartgell, Lanarkshire, Scotland, January 4, 1840 ; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminar}-, '74; ordained June 9, '74, 
and installed pastor of First Presbyterian church of Oxford. 

John Scollay, A.M., Philadelphia. — Lawyer ; born in Boston, 
Mass., June 17, 1847 ; reared at Fitchburg ; served during the 
war as Second Lieutenant in the 25th Massachusetts Regiment ; 



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after teaching two j^ears in Wilkes-Bnrre, he entered college ; he 
then studied law in the office of George Jnnkin, Esq., in Philadel- 
phia, and was admitted to the bar of that city, April, "74, and two 
years later to the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania ; for several 
years an active member of the Law Academy of Philadelphia, 
and a member of the Argument Committee two successive terms. 

Rev. Thomas Love Springer, A.M., Muddy Creek Forks. — 
Born at Loveville, New Castle count}', Delaware, August 25, 
1849 ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary,"74 ; licensed 
May, "73 ; ordained and installed pastor of Hopewell church, 
December 1, '74. 

WiLLARD Springer, A.M., M.D., Wilmington.^ Del. — Born in 
New Castle county, August 28, 1851 ; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, '74 ; appointed April, 
'77, physician to County Hospital. 

Aaron Swartz, Norristoicn. — Lawyer ; born in Kulpsville, 
February 24, 1849 ; Junior Mathematical Prize; Honorary Ora- 
tion — Philological ; admitted to bar of Montgomery county. May, 
'75 ; Deputy Clerk of the U. S. District Court, Philadelphia. 

John Elfreth Watkins, C.E., M.S., P. R. R. Office., Camden., 
N. J. — Born in Ben Lomond, Virginia, May 17, 1852 ; engaged 
in the service of the Pennsylvania Railroad, '72-8 ; is a student 
of law. 

Rev. William \Yiely. — From Downingtown ; born in August, 
1846 ; after graduation he taught, and preached in the Presbyte- 
rian church of Wysox, and at Smith's Landing, New Jersey ; 
after which he had charge of a church in Massachusetts, having 
changed his ecclesiastical connection to the Baptist church. 

CLASS OF 1872. 

Wallace Shaw Ayres, C.E., Trenton., N. J. — Born in Alia- 
much}-, New Jersey ; engaged in New Jersey Steel and Iron Co.; 
member of American Institute of Mining Engineers ; member of 
Board of Examiners for Pardee Scientific Department. 

William Campbell Brobston, Bridgeton, N. ^7^.— Entered 
Sophomore ; he spent a year at Union Theological Seminary, 
and because of entire failure in health, has been unable to con- 
tinue his studies. 



86 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. David Henshey Campbell, Ansonville Born :it Da- 

vidsburg, July 28, 1846; entered Sophomore ; graduated at IJnioa 
Theological Seminary in "15 ; ordained June 17, '15; pastor of 
Fruit Hill church since '75. 

Newton Seibert Cook, Pittsburgh, — Lawyer; from Hagers- 
town, Maryland ; entered college in the latter part of the course ; 
and has practiced law in Pittsburg since '76. 

Frank Alarcone Diffenderfer, Lancaster. — FromNew Hol- 
land, Lancaster county ; entered Junior class. 

Edmund Southard Doty, Mifflintown. — Lawyer; born at 
Mifflintown, May 14, 1851 ; for a time engaged in banking; was 
Principal of the Borough High School ; then studied law, and 
was admitted to the bar, September, '76. 

William Angus Douglass, Chicago^ III. — Born in New 
York City, August 16, 1852; studied theology one year, and has 
since been in business; is now in the Mercantile Agency of R. 
G. Dun & Co. 

Thomas Fassitt, M.E., Philadelphia. — Has not engaged in 
professional life ; traveled in California and the West one year, 
and in P]urope and the East two years, returning to Philadelphia 
in '76. ■ 

Rev. John Fox, A.M., Woodberrij^ Md. — Born at Doylestown, 
Pennsylvania, February 13, 1853; pursued post-graduate studies 
in philology, '72-3, and a course of four j-ears in Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary; is pastor of Hampden Presbyterian church, 
near Baltimore. 

William Pendleton Gaines, A.M , Austin, Texas. — Law- 
yer; born at Columbia, Texas, November 21, 1851 ; admitted to 
the bar, January, '74. 

Rev. James Isaac Good, A.M., Philadelphia. — Born at York, 
December 31, 1850; received Fowler Prize and Junior Mathe- 
matical Prize ; Latin Salutatorian ; graduated at Union Theo- 
logical Seminary in '75 ; ordained to the ministry of the 
Reformed church, June 16, '75 ; pastor at York, '75-7 ; since 
October, '77, pastor of the Heidelberg Reformed church, Phila- 
delphia. 



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Robert McCheyne Hays, A.M., M.D., Newville^ Cumberland 
Co. — Born at Gettysburg, October 9, 1851 ; bis home wbile in 
college was at Chambersburg ; graduated at Jefferson Medical 
College in '74; in practice since '75. 

William Beach Hazleton, Baltimore^ 3Id. — Born at Flint, 
Michigan, January 13,1853; entered Senior; after graduation, 
entered the profession of journalism, and held various editorial 
positions in Pennsylvania, and at present is a member of the 
editorial staff of the Baltimore Daily Sun. 

Elisha Lewis Hillis, Towanda. — Lawyer; born at Herrick, 
June 10, 1846; admitted to the bar of Bradford county, Septem- 
ber, '75; since '75, in practice at Towanda. 

Samuel Henry Houser, Spring Brook, Luzerne Go. — From 
Spring Brook; since graduation, he has been engaged in business. 

John Bryden Law, M.E., Pittston. — Born at Archbald, Lu- 
zerne county, November 28, 1852; in '72-3, was Engineer in Coal 
Department of Delawai-e, Lackawanna and Western Railroad ; 
since '73, Assistant Superintendent of Mines for the Pennsylvania 
Coal Company-. 

William Stokes Long, A.M., Downingtown, Chester Co. — 
Born in Tinicum township, Bucks Countv, September 27, 1845 ; 
entered Sophomore; he has been engaged with his brother, F. D. 
Long, A.M., as Associate Principal of Chester Valley Academy 
since '72. 

Rev. James Allen Menaul, Slippenj Rock., Butler Co. — Born 
in Tychany, T3'rone count}-, Ireland, December 28, 1839; pre- 
pared at New London Academj-, Chester count}" ; entered sub- 
Freshman in '67 ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary in 
'75, and has since been pastor. 

Arthur Julius Pilgram, A.M., Pottsville. — Lawyer ; born in 
Liverpool, Brazoria count}', Texas, February 18, 1851 ; taught 
three years in High School at Pottsville, where he studied law 
under G. R. Kaercher, of '66, and was there admitted to the bar. 
August 20, '75 ; practiced two years in Texas, and since '77 in 
practice at Pottsville. 



88 The Men of Lafayette. 

James Hall Rittenhouse, C.E., Promdence.—Yvom George- 
town, D. C. ; engaged since graduation in the mining department 
of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company ; member of the 
American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Charles Albert Sandt, A.M., Easton. — Lawyer ; born in 
Easton, Xovember 1, 1850; admitted to the bar of Northampton 
county, August, '75. 

John Eaktn Shull, A.M., Polt^ville.— Born at Mariin's Creek, 
August 5, 1846 ; taught four years before entering college; grad- 
uated with Philosophical Oration ; Professor in Bordentown Col- 
lege one year ; Principal of Belvidere Schools two years, and 
Pottsville High School since '75 ; profession of law in A'iew. 

Harry Augustus Smith, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia.— \lovn m 
Philadelphia, May 7, 1849; graduated at Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania, '75 ; he also studied one year in 
Vienna; physician at Philadelphia Hospital, '75-6 ; now assist- 
ant in the Orthopaedic Department of the University, and 
practicing at 1319 North 15th Street. 

Howard Foster Smith, L;/ons^ Clinion Co., loan. — Born at 
Rockport, Illinois, May 25, 1851; but spent his 3'outh in Stillwa- 
ter, Minnesota, until '66, when his parents removed to Lyons ; 
after graduating in the General Scientific Department, he traveled 
through the West and South in '72; and in '73, with his father, 
he organized the Lyons Paper Company, of which he is Secretary 
and Treasurer. Having become interested in Colorado mines in 
'78, he established smelting works for the reduction of lead ores, 
carrjing gold and silver, at Crested Butte, Gunnison county. 

Sylvester Comstock Smith, Phillipaburg., X. J. — Lawyer; 
born at Essex, Middlesex county, Connecticut, April 17, 1851 ; 
taught in Phillipsburg, '72-5 ; admitted to the bar of New Jersey, 
November. '75 ; counsellor, November 6, '78. 

William Ernest Smith, M.E., A.M., Pladsburg, X. Y. — Law- 
3'er ; born at Rockton, Illinois, June 8, 1852 ; admitted to the bar 
of Clinton county. New York, September, '75 ; was Town Clerk of 
Plattsburg in '75; elected Mayor of Plattsburg in '77, and again 

in '78. 



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Robert Patterson SiNowden, Nev: Florence, Westmoreland 
(^(j. — Son of Hon. James Ross Snowden, Director of the Mint, 
and for many years a Trustee of Lafayette ; born at Pittsburg, 
September 10, 1852 ; entered Scientific Department, Freslimau 
class, third term ; assistant engineer on the Texas and Pacific 
Railroad in '73; same position on the Pennsylvania Railroad in 
'74 ; and since '75, assistant supervisor of the Pennsylvania Rail- 
road at New Florence. 

Jefferson Snyder, Heading. — Lawyer; born in Exeter town- 
ship, Berks county, November G, 1848 ; received Astronomical 
Prize ; Valedictorian ; Tutor, '72-3 ; admitted to the bar of Berks 
count}^, August 9, '75. 

William Semple Sweeny, A.M , Easton. — Born at Spring- 
town, New Jersey, July 14, 1849; assistant in chemistry, "72-4: 
Tutor in Chemistry, "74-7 ; Principal of tlie Belvidere Public 
Schools since September, '78. 

Charles Henry Yoigt, M.D., Allegheny City. — Born at 
Mount Pleasant, Westmoreland county, August 27, 1849; re- 
ceived from Mercersburg College at the end of Junior year ; 
Graduated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, 
in '75, where he was president of the class. 

Clarence Gilbert Yoris, Sunbury. — Lawyer; his early home 
was at Danville,where he was born, January 29,1851 ; he studied 
law in Indiana, Pennsylvania, '73-5, and was admitted to the 
bar December 6, '75. 

CLASS OF 1873. 

Frederick H. Adams, Valley City, Barnes Co., Dakota.— 
Lawyer; born at Vergennes, Vt., September 15,1851; entered 
Senior in General Scientific course; admitted to the bar at Al- 
bany, N. y., in '74, after completing a course at the Law Depart- 
ment of Union University ; practiced law in San Francisco, '74-7, 
and of late in the Red River Valley, at the county seat of Barnes 
county. 

Rev. William Clark Alexander, A.M., South Hermitage, 
Lancaster Co. — Born at Lewistown, September 6, 1850; entered 
Sophomore ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in 



iU) The Men of Lafayette. 

'76; licensed bj- Presbytery of Huntingdon, April, '75 p ordained, 
Ma^' 9, '76, as pastor of Pequea Presbyterian elmrcli. 

William C. Anderson, Pi/tv&irr^/. — Ijawyer; born at Youngs- 
town, Westmoreland county, Januarj' 23, 1851; received Fowler 
Prize; studied law at Pittsburg and at Yale LaM' School, '73-6, 
and was admitted to the bar of Alleghen}^ count}', July 17, '76; 
in '78 be annotated and arranged a A'olunie of Rules of Court, 
which has been adopted by the Supreme Court of Pennsjdvania. 

Eleazer Jacob Angle, Tou-avda. — Ijawyer; born at Herrick, 
March 22, 1849; admitted to the bar, December 16, '76: was 
Principal of Canton Graded Scools three years. 

Lloyd Paxton Appelman, M.S., Easton. — Lawyer ; from 
Hloomsburg ; in General Scientific course; studied law in the 
office of A. B. Howell, of '68, and was admitted to the bar at 
Kaston, December, '76. 

Stephen Goodyear Barnes, A.M., Ph.D., Grinaell., Iowa. — 
Born at Perth Ambo,y, New Jerse}, April 2, 1853 ; was the first 
recipient of the Early English Text Society's Prize, and of the Har- 
vey Prize : graduated with honorary- Philological Oration ; since'7o 
he has been Ames Professor of the English Language, Literature 
and Ilhetoric, in Iowa College; received Ph.D. from Lafayette 
in '78, by post-graduate study in Philology; in May, '78, was 
licensed to preach b\' Congregational church, and has since 
studied at Andover Theological Seminary. 

Edward Newell Barrett, Bedford Station, N. Y. — Born at 
Bedford, Febrpary 27, 1852 ; taught in Ossining, '68-9 ; read law 
at White Plains, New York, '73-4; now studying law and farm- 
ing ; in '78 was elected School Commissioner of the Third Dis- 
trict of Westchester county. 

Emery Siiepperd Barrick, A.M. — Lawyer; from Croton, 
Hunterdon county. New Jersey ; Latin Salutatorian ; studied law 
at Harvard ; admitted to the bar at Easton, in April, '77. 

Rev. Enoch Benson, 8eico,rd, Seicard Co., Neb. — Born at 
Bridgeton, New Jersey, in 1849 ; graduated at L^nion Theologi- 
cal Seminar}', '76 ; preached a year at North Bend, Nebraska, 
and since May, '77, at Seward. 



Aliniini — Class of iSyj. 91 

Frank "^PiEECE Billmeyer, Bloomsburg. — Lawyer; born at 
Bloomsburg, December 31, 1852 ; entered Freshrnau, second term ; 
Class Historian ; studied law at Bloomsburg, and was there ad- 
mitted to the bar, September T, '75 ; Borough Treasurer in "77 ; 
and since '77 a member and Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
of the State Normal School at Bloomsburg. 

Rev. Charles Edward Burns, A.M., ManaijunL. — Born at 
Dnncannon, August 13, 184G ; entered Sophomore; Tutor, '73-4; 
graduated at Union Theological Seminary, '76 ; ordained, 
November 13, "70 ; pastor at Beemerville, New Jersey, October, 
"76, to January, "78 ; Lehigh Avenue Presbyterian church, I'hila- 
delphia, January to September, '78; Manayunk, since October 1, 
'78. 

E.EV. Milton Lewis Cook, Missoula^ Montana.. — Born in 
Rome, Pennsylvania, June 2, 1851 ; taught a year at W3'alusu)g ; 
graduated at Princeton Theoh:)gical Seminary, "77 ; in May, "77, 
commenced his missionary' pastorate at Missoula ; served at Colo, 
fighting the Indians. 

Albert Hatch Davidson, C.E., Auguata., Ga. — Born at Au- 
gusta, April 19, 1851 ; assistant engineer on the enlargement of 
the Augusta Canal, "73-5; engineer of the Augusta Water Works 
since Januarj, "78. 

John George Diefenderfer, C.E., A.M., Easiton. -\^o\•n 
in White Hall, Lehigh county, January 6, 1849 ; his home 
while in college Avas at Allentown ; graduated with the Scientific 
Oration ; Tutor in Mathematics, '73-6 ; since '76, adjunct Profes- 
sor of Modern Languages. 

Theodore Cowan English, M.S., Elizabeth., N.J. — Lawyer; 
born at Liberty Corner, New Jersey, September 19, 1850 ; in 
General Scientific course ; admitted to the bar, June, '76. 

*Thomas Crawford Galbreath.— He received the Astronom- 
ical Prize ; died of consumption at his home in Pylesville, Mary- 
land, August 12, '75. 

George Lane Huggins, M.E., M.S., Xew York City. — Law- 
yer; born in Boston, Mass., April 9, 1852; in General Scientific 
course two years, and then transferred to Mining Engineering 



92 The Men of Lafayette. 

course; studied law in Columbia Law Sciiool ; graduated in 
May, "7t, and admitted to tlie bar, but has not engaged in prac- 
tice; resides at the Cosmopolitan Hotel, New York. 

Rev. Wesley Middleton Hyde, Glenfield Born in Balti- 
more, Md., December 4, 1848; graduated at Western Theological 
vSeminary, "77; licensed, April, "7G ; ordained and installed as 
pastor at Glenfield, Allegheny county. June 5, '71. 

Hathaway Kemper, Van Wert., Ohio. — Lawyer ; born at 
Dayton, Ohio, October* 11, 1852; entered Sophomore; studied 
iaw at Dayton, and was admitted to the bar January 2, '7<'>. 

Daniel McKinley Kennedy, A.M. Ghamhershurg. — Born at 
Chambersburg, April 8, 1853; has been engaged on several jour- 
nals, and is now one of the editors and proprietors of the 
Ghamhershurg Daily and Weekly Herald. 

Edward Matthias Killoiujh, C.E., Harrishurg. — Civil en- 
gineer; born at Lancaster, September 28, 1850; engaged as Li- 
spector of the United States Court House and Post-ottice now 
being erected in Harrisburg. 

Cyrus Knecht, C.E,, M.S., EaMon. — Born in Easton, Septem- 
ber fi, 1852; engineering in Easton, '73; teaching, '74-8: now 
studying medicine at Jefferson Medical College. 

George Mortimer Lewis, Wilhex-Barre Law3-er ; born at 

Merryall, Bradford county ; entered college in third term of 
Freshman year; studied law at Wilkes-Barre, and was admitted 
to the bar in '75. 

William Raby Little, C.E., M.D., Bloomsbui-y., N. f/.— Born 
in Chester county, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1850; engineering 
two 3'^ears and then studied medicine; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of University of Pennsylvania in '78. 

Rev. Thomas McNincii, Milton. — Born at Turbotville, Au- 
gust 6, 1843; at Princeton Theological Seminary, '73-5; gradu- 
ated at Union Theological Seminary, '7fi ; preached at Wallace, 

'76-7. 

Ambrose Kirtland Michler, C.E., Washington^ D. G. — Pay- 
master in United States Navy; born in New York City, Febru- 



Ahitnni — Class of 187 j. OS 

i\ry 10, 1852; held various positions as a civil engineer; received 
appointment and commission in Navy, October 31, '77, hy com- 
petitive examination. 

John Albeet Mouk, A.M., Columbia. — Born in West Hemp- 
lleld township, Lancaster county, May 12, 1852; entered Sopho- 
more ; has taught since graduation. 

Alexander Ross Read, A.M., Clea^^field — Born near Clear- 
field, April 13, 1849; Principal, successively, of Woodland Semi- 
nar}', Leonard School, New Washington and Osceola schools ; in 
'78, entered the law office of Judge Barrett, at Clearfield. 

Rev. Henry Rumer, St. Georges^ Del. — Born near Wilming. 
ton, Del., April 10, 1851; entered Sophomore; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '76; ordained pastor of Presby- 
terian church. St. Georges, June 29, '77. 

John Milton St. Clair, M.D., Elderton, Armdrong Co.— 
Born near Indiana, Pennsylvania, October 9, 1847 ; graduated at 
Medical Department of the University- of Pennsylvania, '75, 

Isaac Peter Schaefper, A.M., Camden., N. J. — Born at Fleet- 
wood, Berks county, September 20, 1848; taught before coming 
to Lafayette ; entered Sophomore class ; after graduating he 
taught three years in the Leonard School, at Clearfield ; and in 
'76 engaged in portrait painting, soon after establishing himself 
at Camden, as an artist. 

William Henry Schuyler, A.M., LewUtown. — Born at Has- 
tleton, October 15, 1848 ; taught in Union Academy, Belleville, 
New York, '73-4 ; Tutor of I;atin and Greek in Lafayette, '74-7 ; 
appointed Principal Lewistown Academy, September, '77. 

Rev. Walter Moffat Shanks, A.M., Z>e?imar^, Tuacola Co.. 
ilftc/;.— Born in Scotland ; removed to New York city ; studied 
theology in the Seminar}' of the United Presbyterian church at 
Allegheny ; preached in Bradford county until his removal t(j 
Michigan. 

Joseph R. Shimer, M.E., Eadon. Born at Martin's 

Creek, April 10, 1847 ; graduated in General Scientific 
course, and pursued a post-graduate course in metallurgy, '73-4; 



94 The Men of Lafayette. 

Tutor in metallurgy, "14-8; assistant in Eastern district of the 
State Geological Surve}-, "74-6. 

Albert Peter Silver, A.M., 6^/ent-///e, i)/d.— ]5orn near Lapi- 
clum, Maryland, Noveniber 29, 1852; entered Sophomore; a 
farmei", and since '76 engaged in the sale of fertilizers. 

Lewis Frank Sprenger, A.M., Kutztown, Berk^ Co. — From 
Kutzto"wn ; entered Sophomore ; since graduation has taught in 
Norristown. 

Herman Alricks Steese. — From Mifflinbnrg, Union county ; 
Principal of the Ber^'ick Public Schools, 76-7 ; and since '77, 
teaching at Beverly, N. J. 

*Henry McDonald Struble. — In General Scientific course; 
while studj'ing law, he died at his home in Myrtle Grove, Sussex 
county. New Jerse}', November 1, '75. 

Nathaniel Taylor, Tri7/Le.s-/)*a?-?'«'.— Lawyer ; born January 
28, 1848; received Junior Mathematical Prize; Valedictorian; 
Tutor, '73-4 ; taught in Princeton Preparatory *school, "74-5 ; 
studied law in Columbia College, '75-6 ; and was admitted to the 
bar of Luzerne county, February, '76, locating in Wilkes-Barre. 

Levi Ellmaker Waller, Bloomxhurg^ CoJionhia (Jo. — Law- 
yer; born at Bloomsburg, July 16, 1851 ; studied law with Sen- 
ator C. R. Buckalew, and at Columbia College I^aw School, New 
York, '74-6; admitted to the bar, Septembei-. '76. 

Rev. Joseph Gilliarb Williamson, Jr., A.M., 12 Orient 
Avenue^ Brooklyn, N.Y. — Born at Sidney, New Jersey, March 9, 
1852 ; received the Fowler Prize, Goldsmith, and honorary 
Classical Oration ; taught as Principal of the High School at 
Berwick, Pennsylvania, '73-4 ; and at Schooley's Mountain, New 
Jersey, '74-5 ; graduated at the Union Theological Seminary, 
New York, in '77 ; installed pastor of the Ainslee Street Presby- 
terian church in Brooklyn. September 19, '78. 

CLASS OF 1S74-. 

George Bonbright Anderson, M.D., Lalrohe, We.slmoreland 
Co. — Born at Youngstown, August 8, 1853 ; graduated at Jeffer- 
son Medical College, '77; resident physician Blockley Hospital, 
Philadelphia, '77-8. 



Alunini — Class of iSj^. ^5 

.ToHN Watts Baer Bausman, A.M., LavcoMer. — Lawyer; 
burn at Lancaster, March 12, 1856; in General Scientific course; 
admitted to the bar, December 20, '17. 

William Hanna Bayless, A.M., Baltimore^ 3Id.' — Lawyer; 
born in Harford county, Maryland, April 26, 1854 ; graduated in 
the Law Department of the Iowa State University in '71; ad- 
mitted to the bar, June 20, '77. 

William Crawford BoVARi), M.D., Oil City. — Born at Brady, 
Indiana county, September 9, 1851 ; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of University of Pennsylvania in '78, with the award of 
'' distinguished merit " for his thesis. 

Elijah Ritteniiouse Case, C.E., M.S., Frenchtoum, N. J. — 
Born in Alexandria township, Hunterdon county, New Jersey, 
May 4, 1848; lumber merohnnt. 

Levi Welts Case, A.M., M.D., Frenchtoivn, N. J. — Born in 
Alexandria township, New Jerse}-, January 28, 1850; taught for 
a time, and graduated in medicine at the College of Physicians 
and Surgeons, New York, in '79. 

IvEV. Robert Lorenz(» Clark, Chestnut Level, Lancaster 
County. — Born at Chestnut Level, Jul}^ 22, 1849; taught 
a 3'ear at Norristown ; entering the Western Theological 
Seminaiy, he received the Chambers Prize of $100 for excellence 
in New Testament Greek, and graduated in '78; licensed April 
11, '77; pastor at LeClaire and Princeton, Scott county, Iowa, 
during part of '78. 

Rev. Enoch Israel Davies, A.M. — Fittsjield, Warren Co. — 
Born at Biynmawr, Brecknockshire, South Wales, February 6, 
1849; graduated at the Western Theological Seminaiy in '77. 
having received the Chambers Prize in '75 ; ordained and installed 
pastor of the Pittsfield and Garland churches, June 19, '77. 

Arthur Granville Dew alt, Allentown. — Lawyer; born at 
Bath, October 11,1854; studied law in the office of John D. 
Stiles, Esq., and was admitted to the bar of Lehigh county. 
October 19, '77. 

Pennell Coombe Evans, A.M., Easton. — Lawyer; born in 
Easton, May 31, 1848; admitted to the bar, February 16, '76. 



96 The Men of Lafayette. 

'Francis George Fisher. — Born in Stroud township, Mon- 
roe county, Pennsylvania, July 31, 1851 ; wliile engaged in study- 
ing law, at Towanda, he died at his liome in Standing Stone, 
Bradford county, January- 23, '75, oged 23. 

Angus Lewis Fullerton, C.E., M.S., Chillicothe^ Ohio. — Born 
at Chillicothe, April 11, 1853 ; resident engineer on Dayton and 
South Eastern Railroad for two years; since April, '75, architect 
and city engineer of Chillicothe. 

Jacob Butz Heller, Jr., A.M., M D., Easton Born in Eas- 

ton, September 23, 1853; graduated at the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania, '78 ; resident physician at 
Blockley Hospital, Philadelphia, '78-9. 

Clinton Hilliard, C.E., Easton. — Born in Easton, February 
5, 1854 ; clerk in the First National Bank, and Secretary of the 
Farmers' and Mechanics' Institute. 

Conway Wing Hillman, C.E., A.M., Harrisburg. — Born at 
Carlisle, August 12, 1856; graduated as A.B. at Dickinson Col- 
lege in '73; entered Senior in C.E. course, and delivered a Ger- 
man oration ; chief clerk in Cumberland A^'alley Railroad office. 

■Fredeeick Emanuel Keim. — Born in I^laintield township, 
Northampton county, Pennsylvania, April 17, 1852; on the staff 
of the Eadon Daily Free Press, and a student of law ; he died 
at his home in Easton, May 4, 1875. 

Clay Kemble, M.S., Philadelphia. — Born in Philadelphia, 
March 7, 1853; graduated in the General Scientific course; pur- 
sued post-graduate course in '74-5 ; clerk jn the People's Bank. 

William McKeen Miller, M.E. Danville. — Mining engineer 
and chemist; born at South Easton, February 11, 1853; chemist 
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Co., Scranton, '75-7; is now chemist 
in Grove Bro's Iron Works. 

Charles Joseph Nourse, A.M., M.D., U. S. N., Washington, 
D. G. — Born at Annapolis, Md., December 15, 1854; entered 
Sophomore from Columbian College; received Astronomical 
Prize, and Astronomical Oration; graduated in medicine at Col- 
umbian University, D. C, '76 ; Assistant Surgeon in the Naval 



Alumni — Class of i8/^. 91 

Hospital, Chelsea, Mass., 'IC-T, and since July, "17, on tin; U. S. 
steamers, Nahant and Blake. 

Israel Platt Pardee, M.E., M.S., Stanhope, N. J. — Mining 
engineer and chemist; born at Hazleton, Penns3dvania, May 12, 
1852; post-graduate, '74-5; chemist of the Port Oram Iron 
Works, at Dover, N. J., in '76; now Assistant Superintendent of 
the Musconetcong Iron Works; member of the American Insti- 
tute of Mining Engineers. 

.Sylvanus Rockafellow Queen. — Born at Clinton, Hunter- 
don county, New Jersey, February 4, 1848; taught at Tom's 
River, N. J.; studied in Union Theological Seminar^-. 

Samuel Miller Riley, C.E., Ashland. — Born at Montrose, 
November 21, 1852; received the Junior Mathematical Prize; 
Assistant Engineer in the Lehigh Valley Coal Company. 

*Emilius Kitchell Sayre, Jr. — Born in Lewis county, Mis- 
souri, April 3, 1853; graduated in the Law Department of the 
Washington University, St. Louis, '76 ; died at his home in 
Monticello, Missouri, September 3, '76, aged 23. 

Joseph Alexander Snively, (Jreencaatle, Franklin Go. — 
Born in Antrim township, Franklin county, August 27, 1852 ; 
studied law. 

Samuel Sprecher, CJ£t., Lancaster Prom Lancaster; since 

graduation he has been actively engaged in professional woi'k at 
home. 

Robert Annan Stewart, Mercer Lawyer; born at Mercer, 

December 30, 1851 ; studied law in the office of his fjither, and 
was admitted to the bar. May 22, '76; practicing at Me^'cer. 

Rev. Samuel Luther Stiver, A.M., Potter's Mills, Centre Co. 
— Born near Potter's Mills, November 1, 1848 ; he received the 
Junior Mathematical Prize, Astronomical Prize, and Latin Salu- 
tatory ; studied law at Chambersburg one year, then entered the 
Union Theological Seminary, New York, graduating in '78 ; 
licensed by the Presbytery of New York, May 7, '78 ; and since 
September 1, '78, pastor of the Hirh Street Presbyterian church, 
St. Louis, Missouri ; taught at Chambersburg, '74-5, and in New 
York city, '75-7. 



98 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. John Franklin Stonecipher, Mercer. — Born in Alle- 
gheny county, August 22, 1852 ; graduated nt the Western The- 
ological Seminary, "IT ; licensed, April 26, "70 ; ordained Janvxary 
29, '78 ; since July 1, 'TT, pastor at Mercer, 

George Robert Van Reed, C,E,, Beading. — Born at Reading, 
1853: since graduation he has been engaged in his profession. 

Rev, Samuel Robert Warrendeb.— From Stapleton, New 
York; horn June 13, 1845; graduated at Union Theological 
Seminary in '77 ; and has since preached at Brownsville, Ne- 
braska, and Perry, Kansas. 

Ethan Allen Weaver, C.E., M.S., Philadelphia. — Born near 
Nazareth, June 7, 1853; post-graduate in chemistry, '74-5; 
Draughtsman in the office of Chief Engineer of Maintenance of 
Wa}', Pennsylvania Railroad, 

William Pomeroy Weston, C.E., Neie York- City. — Lawyer; 
born in Burlington, Vt., in 1850; graduated in the Law Depart- 
ment of Columbia College, '78. 

John Rohkrt Williams, A.M., iSV. Lom/.s-, Mo. — Lawyer; born 
at Frenchtown, New Jersej', Decembers, 1849; entered Dickin- 
son College, September, '70, and Lafayette, January, '71; re- 
ceived the I'-arly English Text Societj-'s Prize, the Harvey Prize, 
and the Fowler Prize for essa}' on Irving; Valedictorian; en- 
gaged in journalism and writing sketches for historical works in 
Illinois, Kentucky and Missouri, '74-6: studied law in Philadel- 
phia, '77, and afterwards in the office of the Hon, James 0, Broad- 
head, St. Louis, where he was admitted to the bar, May 8, '78, 
and has since practiced at 417 Pine street; author of historical 
essays relative to the earlj' French settlement of the Mississippi 

Valley. 

CLASS OF IS75. 

Henry Scarborough Carey, TayloraeiUe, Buckx Ccmnty. — 
Teaclier; born in Buckingham, December 3.1849; received the 
Junior Mathematical Prize, and honorable mention in Astronomv : 
taught in Doylestown Seminary one year, '76; in geological ex- 
jiloration in Kansas since September, '78. 

Robert Henderson Carothers, A,M., Shippensbtrrg. — Born 
near Saltsburg, March 5, 1848; Freshman and Sophomore at 



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99 



Westminster College, Pennsylvania; Tutor in English Language 
and Literature in Westminster College, "15-6 ; studied a 3'ear in 
Germany; since '77, teaching in State Normal School, Shippens- 
burg. 

Thomas Craig, C. E., Ph.D., Baltimore^ Md. — Born at 
Pittston, December 20, 1853; graduated with the Scientific Ora- 
tion ; received honorable mention in mathematics at the Inter- 
collegiate contest, in New York City, in '75; since '76 he has 
been Fellow in Johns Hopkins University, where, in '78, he re- 
ceived the degree of Ph.D. by examination; author of a volume 
on the Motions of Fluids. 

Jesse Van Auken Craighead, M.E,, Caribou^ Colorado. — 
Born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania, July 10, 1853; 
in Technical course fiom the second term of Freshman year, and 
post-graduate in Metallurgj- one year ; in Colorado since '76. 

John William Creveling, Phillipshurg^ N. J. — Lawyer; 
born at Asbuiy, New Jersey, September 15, 1854; graduated at 
the Law Department of the L^niversity of Michigan, '77. 

William Walter Dale, Fr-anklin. — Lawyer; born near 
Franklin, August 8, 1854; admitted to the bar of Venango 
county, August 23, '77; since January, '79, he has been junior 
member of the law firm of Osmer & Dale, the senior member be- 
ing the present Congressman from the Twenty-seventh District. 

Andrew Fine Derr, A.M., Wilkes- Barre. — Lawyer; born in 
Northumberland county, May 29, 1853 ; post-graduate one year, 
'75-6 ; studied law with preceptors and at the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

Montgomery Evans, No7^ristown. — Lawj-er; born in Limerick 
township, November 18, 1853; Valedictorian; taught in Mont- 
rose, '75-7 ; studied law in Norristown. 

William Henry Harrison, A.M., Eadon.—^ovn in Easton, 
January 12, 1853; post-graduate and assistant in Natural Science 
in Lafayette, '75-8; specialty Botany and Entomology; he aided 
in preparing the exhibit made by the college at the Centennial 
Exposition, of 1,300 specimens of insects, embracing 500 species; 
taught in Easton, '76-7, and since August. '78, at Orangeville 
Academy, in Columbia county. 



100 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. John Roberts Henderson, Bedford. — Born at New- 
ville, Pennsylyania, Noveraher 15, 1852; graduated with 
Classical Oration ; graduated at Princeton Tlaeological Seminary, 
"78, and immediately became pastor at Bedford. 

Willis Stanley Hetrich, A.M., Easfon. — Born in Easton, 
March 4, 1853; edited the history of the class; law student in the 
oHice of A. S. Knecht. 

James Henry Hicks, C.E., Bates, Sangamon Go., III. — En- 
gineer ; born at Pittston, Pennsylvania, November 6, 1852. 

Zaciiarias Christman Hoch, Kiitztoion. — Teacher; born in 
Maxatawn}^ township, Berks county, December 25, 1852; taught 
in Watsontown and Kutztown ; is registered as a law student. 

Joseph Ellis Hoffman, Danxjille Teacher : born February 

17, 1855; taught at Chester Springs, Danville, and since '77 at 
Muncy. 

Herbert Hallet Jackson, Brooklyn, N.Y. — Insurance agent; 
born near Cumberland, Maryland, November 20, 1850; received 
Early English Text Society's Prize, the Harvey Prize and Philo- 
logical Oration ; studied at Leipsic one year, '7ft. 

Nicholas Henry Larzelere, Norristoirn. — Lawyer ; born in 
Bucks count}', March 7, 1852; admitted to bar of Montgomery 
county, September 29, '77. 

Charles Henry Lee, C.E., New Taco)na, Washington Ter- 
ritory.. — Engineer and surve3'or ; born at Hanover, Indiana, April 
12, 1849. 

John Morgan Lewis, C.E., Pittston. — Born at Pittston, April 
27, 1853; is now Mine Superintendent for the Pennsylvania Coal 
Comiiany. 

Arthur Millington McComb, C.E,, M.E., Fhiladelphia. — 
Born in London, Ohio, October 9, 1852; received Junior Mathe- 
matical Prize and Philosophical Oration ; obtained degree of 
M.E. by post-graduate study ; was draughtsman and chemist in 
Steel Works at Syracuse, N.Y.; now in Drown's Factory in Philn- 
delphia. 



Alni)ini — Class of tSjj, 101 

Daviu Williamson Nevin, A.M., i7as/0H.— Ln%vycr ; born at 
Shippensburg, September 9, 1853 ; Freshman and Sophomore in 
class of 74; clerk in U. S. Pension Office, Philadelphia, '72-3 ; 
Junior and Senior in class of '75 ; studied law in Easton; ad- 
mitted to the bar of Northampton county, June 14, '77; edited 
the history of the class. 

Hamilton H. Pollock, A.M., Callem-iborg. — Teacher; born in 
Clarion county, July 8, 1849 ; taught in Blair Presbyterial 
Academy", 75-8. 

Albert Andrews High ards, Marshal^ Texas.— lja-wyer\ born 
in Buck Valle}', Pennsylvania, November 4, 1854 ; received the 
Astronomical Prize; taught in Tennessee and in Franklin county, 
Pennsylvania ; recently' located in legal practice at Marshall. 

Richard Anderson Roberts, M.S., Clayton, Wis. — Merchant: 
born in Allegheny City, May 13, 1854; in General Scientific 
course; journalist, and secretary to (ieneral Custer at the time 
of the massacre. 

George Manville Robison, C.E., Bast Springfield., Erie Co. 
— Born at East Springfield, July 29, 1854; taught one year, and 
in '77 was elected Count}' Surveyor of Erie county; in '78, was 
appointed U. S. Deputj^ Mineral Surveyor of Colorado ; present 
post-office address at Leadville, Lake county, Colorado. 

Joseph Whitefield Scroggs, Greenfield, M).— Born at Green- 
field, October 26, 1852; editor of "Songs of Lafayette;" 
music dealer, and since August, '78, teaching at Price City, Mo. 

Samuel AVilson Suable, Lancaster. — Lawyer; born in Mifflin 
count}', May 10, 1852 ; admitted to tiie bar of Lancaster county, 
June 1, '77. 

William Clayton Shipman, ^as/on.— Lawyer ; born in Eas- 
ton, August 15, 1854 ; admitted to the bar of Northampton coun- 
ty, October 9, '77. 

Edmund Dell Smith, Pottsville. — Lawyer; born in Pottsville, 
May 15, 1854 ; admitted to the bar of Schuylkill county, '77. 

Rev. Andrew Jackson Sullivan, A.M., Hehron^Conn. — Born 
in Philadclphia,'November 20, 1853 ; graduated at Union Theo- 



^02. Jfic Men of Lafayette. 

logical Seminary, '78; licensed April H, "18; ordaineeJ May 8, 
'18; pastor of the First Congregational cluirch iu Hebron, Con- 
necticut. 

Kev. Welling Evan Thomas^ Stevensuillej Bradford Co. — 
Born at Orwell, January 25, 1852 ; Latin Salutatorian ; taught in 
New Windsor, Maryland, '75-6 ; studied in Union Theological 
Seminary, '76-T ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, 
't9 ; licensed by the Presbytery of Lackawanna, April SO, "18. 

James Wilson Walk, A.M.,M.D., Fhiladelphia. — Born March 
14, 1853; received the Fowler Prize ; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of the Universit}' of Pennsylvania, '78, receiving hon- 
orable mention for thesis on Electro Therapeutics ; since '75, he 
has been Supenntendent of the Northern Home for Friendless 
(Miildren. 

Lewis Buku Walker. A.M., /'o//.st;i7/e.— Lawyer ; born at 
Pottsville, June 15, 1855; admitted to the bar of Scliu}ikill 
county, in '78. 

CLASS OF 1876. 

Isaac Oakeobd Acton, C.E., ,S'a/em, iV. J.— Born March 17, 
1856 ; entered Sophomore class ; in professional pi'a(!tice in Salem. 

Fernando De Albuquerque, C.E., Han Faulo, Brazil. — Born 
February 10, 1852; entered Junior class ; is now in partnership 
with his classmate, Mr. Chism, in the agency in Brazil for Amer- 
ican machinery and railroad supplies. His post-oliice address is 
Cidade de Santos, Provincia de San Paulo. 

Joseph Kirkwood Alexander, Moundsville, W. Va. — Born at 
Martin's Ferry, Ohio, December 10, 1852; graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminar}-, '79. 

Milton Rothrock Alexander, Leicistown. — Born near Lewis- 
town, January 14, 1846 ; since graduation he has been teaching 
in The Hill School at Pottstown. 

Clarence Newton Andrews, Eaaton. — Journalist; born at 
Ashboro, North Carolina, July 29, 1856 ; in General Scientific 
course; received the Astronomical Prize; clerk in P^aston Na- 
tional Bank, '76-8. 



AliwiHi— Class of iSj6. 103 

CrEORGE Albert Angle, Belvidere^ N. J. — Born at Roxburg, 
"New Jersey, September 9, 1863 ; law student in the office of Hon. 
J. G. Shipman, of class of '38. 

James Bacon, Paterson, iV. -7.— Lawyer ; born at Osceohi, 
December 8, 1854 ; graduated at Columbia Law School, "78; ad- 
mitted to the bar of New York, May 20, '78. 

Isaac Barber, M.D., FhiUiiJ^hurg^ N. J. — Born in Lopatcong, 
New Jersey, September 4, 1854 ; graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of the University of Pennsylvania, '79. 

Allen Pkter Berlin, C.E., Gherryville, — Born August 21, 
1854; received honorary Mathematical Oration; pursued post* 
graduate course in law ; and was for two years assistant in 
Eastern division of the State Geological Survey ; registered as » 
Uiw-student with F. W. Edgar, Esq., of class of '71. 

Samuel Austin Besson, Boboken, N. J. — Law student ; born 
at Everittstown, New Jersey, April 6, 1853 ; received Douglass 
Prizes in '75-6; taught in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; if 
Notary Public at Hoboken. 

Charles Welles Bixby, A.C.. Wilkes- Barre. — Born at Wv~ 
alusing, Pennsylvania, December 15, 1854; since graduation has 
traveled in California and Europe. 

Maynard Bixby, Wilkes-Barre. — Born at Wyalusing, June 
28, 1853 ; studying law in the office of Messrs. Darling, in Wilkes- 
Barre. 

Silas Belden Brown, C.E,, M.E., New York, — Born at May's 
Landing, New Jersey, May 7, 1854 ; graduated with honorary 
Scientific Oration, and after a year of post-graduate study, re- 
ceived the degree of M.E.; since September, '77, he has been 
with the leather manufacturing firm of Stephen Ballard & Co., 
16 and 18 Chambers street. 

*JoiiN Alfred Buchanan.— From Honey Brook, Chester 
county; born January 12, 1851; received honorary- Philological 
Oration ; died at ihe end of his first year of study in the Union 
Theological Serainar^^, New York, April 28, '77, aged 26. 



104 The Men of Lafayette. 

RiCHAKL* JK. Chism, M.E., JV"orrtK/ou.;n. — Born .Inlj 27, l8o2; 
entered Sophomore class- is now in Brazil,with Mr. Albuquerque, 
(see above). 

John Waugh Clendenin, G^.^Anihonij^ Konm^. — From Me- 
chanicsburg, Pennsylvania; born April 8, 1853; engaged in 
stock-raising. 

John Alexander Coyode, Lockport^ Westmoreland Co Son 

of the Hon. J ohn Covode, who was for ten years a representative 
in Congress; born in Westmoreland county, May 6, 1853; Gen- 
eral Scientific course ; engaged in manufacturing and mining, 

William Franklin Dannehower, Norr^istoicn. — Lawyer; 
born in Zieglersville, December 17, 1854; clerk in Prothonotar3^'s 
office, '7T-8, 

Harry Emmons, Wilmington, Del. — Lawyer;- Itorn in Wil- 
mington, April 5, 185;>; Class Historian; studied law under 
Hon. Charles B. Lore; admitted to the bar at Wilmington in 
November, '78. 

William Thomas Fek. — Bc^rn at Niles, Ohio, May (i, 1854; 
reared at Franklin, Pa,; Freshman year at Oberlin; (xeneral 
Scientific course ; Orator at Intercollegiate contest, .New York, 
'76; studied nt Gottingen, German3', '76-7; is now studying law. 

John Slough Freeman, Philadelphia,. — Born in Worcester, 
Pa., Sept. 8, 1851 ; received Fowler Prize, and honorary Philo- 
sophical Oration; after graduation, taught in Milford and Potts- 
town; County Superintendent of Pike count}', '77-8; in '79, en- 
gaged in mercantile business. 

John Bennett Fuller, C.E., 3Iontoursrille, Li/coming Co. — 
Born December 7, 1852; in mercantile business. 

John Torrey Fuller, C.E., M.E., Wilke.^-Barre. — Son of the 
late Hon, Llenry M. Fuller, member of Congress ; civil engineer; 
born in Wilkes-Barre, March 31, 1856; in the Pennsylvania 
School Report, for 1871, he is mentioned as having been for two 
years at the head of his class in Wilkes-Barre High School and 
never absent or tardy; received the Junior Mathematical Prize; 
Valedictorian; obtained degree of M.E. in '77 by post-graduate 



Ahiinni — Class of i8y6. 105 

stud}'; engaged on Engineer corps by Pennsylvania Canal Com- 
pany; member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

James Gayley, M.E., Colora, Md. — Chemist; born at Lock 
Haven, Octeber 11, 1855; son of Rev. Samuel A. Gayley, of 
class of '47 ; since February 23, 't7, he has been chemist at the 
Crane Iron Works, at Catasauqua. 

Rev. Jacob Brunner Graham, Honey Brook^ Chester Co. — 
Born at Honey Brook, February 12, 1849; gx'aduated at Drew 
Theological Seminar}-, '78 ; licensed as local preacher in the M. E. 
church at Easton, June, '76; preaching in the Central Pennsyl- 
vania Conference, at Houtzdale, Clearfield county; permanent 
address. Honey Brook. 

Frank Graham Harris, C.E,, Clearfield. — Born atKarthaus, 
Clearfield county, November 6, 1845 ; graduated as B.S. at 
Dickinson Seminar}-, '73 ; entered Sophomore in C.E. course; 
Principal of Grammar Schools, Clearfield, '76-8. 

Thomas Abraham Horn Hay, Easton. — Born in Easton, July 
1, 1855 ; editor of College Journal., Vol. I ; in wholesale mercan- 
tile business. 

John King Hays, Jr., William.^wrt.—Bovn at Williamsport, 
August 18, 1856 ; since graduation he has been a student of law 
in the office of Messrs. Allen & Gamble. 

Alfred Heebner, Port Carbon., Schuylkill Co.— Born in Port 
Carbon, August 27, 1851 ; he received Douglass Prizes in '73-4 ; 
studied theology two years at Princeton, and was recently in 
Casey, Illinois. 

John Burke Hendry, Easton. — Lawyer; born March 8, 1858; 
in General Scientific course ; studied law at Harvard ; received 
LL.B. from Lafayette in '78 ; is now a student in the Law De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania. 

Charles Christopher Henschen, Jr., Baltimore., 3Id. — Born 
in Baltimore, Februarj- 18, 1855; entered Sophomore class; re- 
ceived a Douglass Prize in '75; taught in Xorristown, '76-8. 

Forrest Hulings, Franklin From Emlenton,Yenango coun- 
ty ; born February 21, 1852 ; is studying law. 



10(5 The Men of Lafayette. 

Willis Maktin Hunt, Glen Gardner^ N. J. — Born at Gleii 
Gardner, July 26, 1853; General Scientific course; engaged in 
manufacturing and mercantile business. 

Rev. John Coleman Irwin, Indiana. — Born at Indiana, Octo- 
ber 31, 1853; studied theology at the Theological Seminar}' of 
the Northwest in Chicago ; his middle year being spent at Alle- 
ghen}- City. 

Matthew Hale Jones, Jr., JEaston. — Son of M. H. Jones, 
Esq., a Trustee of Lafayette ; born in Easton, July 1, 1856; 
studying law. 

Jackson Perry Keeney, Towanda. — Born at Terrytown, 
Bradford county, Maj- IT, 1853 ; entered Sophraore ; taught at 
Athens, Pennsylvania, "TG-S ; now studying law in the ottice of 
Overton & Mercur at Towanda. 

Alexander Lowry Kinkeab, Bradford. McKean Co. — Law- 
yer; born at Yellow Springs, Blair county, September 10, 1853 : 
studied law at Hollidaysburg, in the office of Hon. S. S. Blair, 
and was admitted to the bar, July. '78. 

Edwin Houston Lamberton, i''/-a/(/7//^— LaAvyer ; Ijoni at 
I'ranklin, October 21, 1854; studied law at Columbia College. 

Rev. Asa Leard, Coivansville, Armxironr/ Co. — Born in Cuya- 
hoga county, Ohio, May 13, 1851 ; student of theology in the 
Theological Seminary of the Northwest, Chicago. 

Rev. TiiOiMAS William Leard, Coicansville, Armstrong Co. — 
Born in Cuj-ahoga county, April 13,1848: studied at LTnjon 
Theological Seminary, "16-8 ; and graduated at the Theological 
Seminary of the Northwest, in Chicago, in '79. 

Arthur Coffin Logan, >SV'ra»^o».— Lawyer ; born at Con- 
stantine, Michigan, October 23, 1854; studied law in the ofi^ice 
of Hand & Post, at Scranton, and was there admitted to the bar, 
February 3, '79. 

Harry Vannuys Logan, Hcranlon. — Born at Constantine, 
Michigan, May 21, 1853 ; student of medicine in the University 
of Pennsylvania. 



Alumni — Class of iSyd. 107 

Alvin Theodore Ludwig, Allenioivn. — Born October 12, 1855; 
entered Sophomore; is a student of theology in the Seminary of 
the Lutheran church in Pliiladelphia. 

John Moore McCahan, Philadelphia. — Born at Ball3X'astle, 
County Antrim, Ireland, September 22, 1850; was in mercantile 
business in Pliihidelphia before entering college; received Doug- 
lass Prizes in '73 and '74; graduated at Princeton Theological 
Seminary in '79. 

Oliver Campbell MgClure, Chester.— IjSiwyev; born at 
Thurlow, January 10, 1856; studied law in the office of James 
H. Heverin, Philadelphia, September, '7G,to N'ovember, '78,when 
he was admitted to the bar, and since January, '79, practicing in 
Philadelphia; Chairman of the Republican City Committee of 
Chester. 

William Henry McCurdy, SlaAe Hill, York Co. — Born at 
Peach Bottom, October 26, 1854; taught two 3- ears; now studj- 
ing medicine. 

John Stockton Marquis, Dunningsville, Washington Co. — 
Born April 25, 1854 ; Freshman and Sophomore at Washington 
and Jefferson College. 

William Andrew May, C.E., Hcranton.—Bovn at Hollida^'s- 
burg, December 3, 1850 ; graduated as A.B. at Dickinson Semi- 
nar}^, '73 ; entered Junior ; since graduation he has been mining 
engineer for the coal department of the New York, Lake Erie 
and Western Railway. 

Henry Daniel Michler, Easton Born in Easton, January 

9,1856; General Scientific course; studying medicine in the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania. 

James Monaghan, C.E., West Chester. — Lawyer; born in 
Missouri, September 21, 1854 ; studied law in the office of his 
brother, R. Jones Monaghan, West Chester; and was admitted to 
the bar of Chester county, March 11, '79. 

Rev. Samuel Black Neilson, Neio Bloomjield, Perry Co. — 
Born August 19, 1853, at New Bloomfield ; graduated at Union 
Theological Seminar^', New York, '79. 



108 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. Clearfield Park, Bloomsbunj^ N. J. — Born October 8, 
1856; eavl}' life was spent in New York citj^ ; studied theology 
at Union Theolojjical Seminary, '76-8, and graduated at Prince- 
ton in '79. 

Edward Peacock, M.E,, Lancader. — Born in Reading, March 
16,1855; was mining engineer and assistant superintendent in 
Joplin, Missouri, and in the Howard Iron Works, Centre count}', 
Pennsylvania. 

John Porter, Philadelphia Lawyer ; son of Professor Por- 
ter ; born in Lancaster, February 4, 1856; studied law in Harris- 
burg in the office of his uncle, John W. Simonton, of the class of 
'46 ; and was admitted to the bar at Harrisburg in August, '78, 
and to the Philadelphia bar, March 1, '79. 

Henry Emery Raesley, Canton^ Bradford Oc— Teacher : 
born in Upper Mount Bethel, June 10, 1855 ; taught before en- 
tering college ; since graduation he has been Principal of the 
Cauton High School. 

Russell B. Rice, C.E., Perryville, Ashland Co., Ohio. — Born 
near Perr^-ville, July 10, 1846; entered Sophomore, having pre- 
viously' been a student in Otoe L^niversity, Nebraska, and Den- 
ison Universit}', Ohio; engaged since graduation in teaching and 
engineering. 

John Jay Serfass, M.D., Easton. — Born in Easton, January 
12, 1854; pursued partial course, and received a certificate at 
commencement, receiving the degree of A.B. in '77 ; graduated 
in medicine at the University' of Pennsylvania in '79. 

Wyn Reeves Sewell, AUegheiuj 0/^//.— Lawyer; born in 
Allegheny, 1854; studied at Western University of Pennsylvania, 
and afterward pursued full classical course at liafayettc; his ad- 
dress is 234 North avenue. 

Cyrus Lee Stevens, A.C, Stevensville, Bradford Co. — Born 
at Stevensville, March 10, 1851; Tutor of Natural Science and 
Librarian, I'arsons College, Fairfield, Iowa, '76-8; now a student 
at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Keokuk, Iowa. 

Rev. William Clark Stvll, 3Ti1ford, N. J — Born at Mil- 
ford, September 29, 1850; received Pouglass Prizes of ^100 each 



Ahnnni — Class of iSyd^ 109 

in '73-4-5-6, the Junior Mathematical Prize, the Harvey Prize, 
the Early English Text Society's Prize, and tlie Latin Saluta- 
tory ; gi'aduated at Princeton Tiieological Seminar^', '79 .; licensed 
by Presbytery of Philadelphia North, April 17, '78. 

Victor Piollet Wierman, Harrisburg. — Born at Towanda, 
December 20, 1855; General Scientific course; connected with 
second Geological Survey of Pennsylvania, and with Penns}'!- 
vania Canal Company; is now assistant Supervisor on the New 
York Division of the Pennsylvania Railroad, stationed at New 
Brunswick, N. J. 

CLASS OF 1877. 

William John McKee Alexander, SaUsbi'rg^ Indiana Co. — 
Born in Allegheny City, October 1, 1852; received the Early 
English Text Society,'s Prize and the Junior Mathematical 
Prize ; left college in his Senior year, because of ill health, and 
received degree of A.B. in78; taught a year in Wilkes-Barre, 
and is now Principal of the Saltsburg Academy-. 

John Bell Alexander, Lewistown. — Born at Fruitland, Lit- 
tle Yalle}', February C^, 1852; teaching at Norwalk, Conn. 

Walter Lowrie Alexander, Moundsville, W. Va. — Born at 
Martin's Ferry, Ohio, July 23, 1857; student at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary. 

William Edgar Baker, C.E., Elizabeth., N. J. — Born in 
Springfield, Mass., October 16, 1856; Assistant Engineer on St. 
Paul and Pacific Railroad Compau}', with office at St. Paul, 

Charles Heath Bannard, Salem, N. J. — Born in New York 
City, 1856; General Scientific course; engaged in civil engineer- 
ing, '77-8; law student. 

Edwin Clark Beers, PliilUpabarg, N. r^.— Born at Phillips- 
burg, September 7, 1856; Principal of Phillipsburg High School 
since February, '77; law student. 

Joseph Edward Bimm, C.E., Daijton, Ohio. — Born at Dayton, 
September 21, 1856; engaged in mercantile business in his 
father's firm. 

James Wilson Bright, Lock Haven. — Born at Aaronsburg, 
Centre county, October 2, 1852 ; entered Freshman, third term: 



110 The Men of Lafayette. 

Latin Salutatoriau ; received the Fowler Prize, *•' William Cullen 
Brj^ant," at the hands of the poet himself; teacher of Languages 
and English Literature in the Central State Normal School at 
Lock Haven. 

AsHER Davidson Blbb, Lock Haven. — From Antes Fort, Ly- 
coming county ; law student at Lock Haven. 

Jacob Pennypackkk Buckwalter, C.B., (SWufen^si'i'^Ze, Mont- 
gomernj County. 

John Wesley Codding, Towanda. — Law student at Towanda. 

Thomas Honey Crowell, C.E., Orange, N. J. — Born at Or- 
ange, August 22, 1857 ; his home while in college was at Odessa, 
Delaware ; is now assistant in tlie U. S. Coast Survey. 

GrEORGE Palmer Curtis, Hackettdown, N. J. — Born at Hack- 
ettstown, NoA'ember 10, 1854 ; taught in Morristown, New Jer- 
sey ; studying medicine. 

David Duncan Davidson, Warren. — Born at Warren, April 
16,1853; teaching and making chemical analyses; hiw student. 

John Russell Dickson, Hunterstoivn. — Born at Hunterstown, 
February 23, 1853 ; student in the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania ; President of class of '77. 

Mervin Johnson Eckels, Carlisle. — Born at New Kingston, 
Cumberland county, June 18, 1854; entered Sophomore; received 
Douglass Prize of $100 in '75 ; taught in the West Nottingham 
Academy, at Colora, Mar^dand, since September 1, '77 ; ministry 
in view. ' 

Charles Henry Edgar, New ror^-.— -Born in New York, 
January 4, 1857; General Scientific course; law student; ad- 
dress, 100 Wall street. 

Albert Cecil Fairchild, M.E., Scranton. — Born at Bloom- 
field, New Jersey, September 28, 1856; since January. 9, '78, he 
has been chemist for the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company ; 
associate member of the American Listitute of Mining Engineers, 

Edwin John Farber, Baltimore, Md — Born in Baltimore, 
December 22, 1856 ; Freshman 3'ear at Gettj^sburg, where he re- 



Alinnni — Class of iSyy. Ill 

ccived first prize for scholarsliip ; now law student in the Uni- 
versity of Maryland. 

Howard Mervin Fisher, Baltimore, Aid. — Born August 1, 
1853, in Adams county ; earl}- removed to New London, wliere 
he studied under professors of Lincoln University; entered 
Sophomore ; now studying law with K. K. Wright. Esq., of 
Baltimore. 

Robins Fleming, C.E., Beadwgton, Hunterdon (Ju,, N. J. — 
Born at Readington, Februaiy 19, 1856 ; graduated with Honor- 
ary Oration — Mathematical, and honorable mention in Astron- 
omy ; taught at Clinton, N. J., and now at Readington. 

James Wesley Gilland, Shady Grove, Franklin Co. — Born 
near Shady Grove, November 24, 1853 ; i-eceived Classical Ora- 
tion ; student in Union Theological Seminary, N. Y. 

James Tracy Hale, Toiranda. — Born at Towanda, October 
9, 1855; studying law in the Universit}- of Pennsylvania. 

Russell B. Harrison, M.E., Helena, i)fo??ianff.- Grandson of 
President Harrison; born at Oxford, Ohio, August 12,1854; 
his parents early removed to Indianapolis ; engineer of the Citi- 
zens' Gas-light Company in Lidianapolis in '77 ; was appointed 
assistant Assayer of the L^. g, Mint at New Orleans, '78, but 
was transferred to the Mint at Helena, of which he was appointed 
Assayer in December, '78 ; also, assistant U. S. Treasurer. 

William Piper Smith Henry, Everett, Bedford Go. — Born 
at Everett, Januarj^ 13, 1857 ; Freshman and Sopliomore at 
Dickinson College, '73-5 ; studying medicine. 

Abraham Hogeland, C.E., DavisriUe, Bucks Co. — Received 
honorable mention in Astronomy. 

Albert Harrison Hogeland, C.E, Southamptonville, Bucks 
Co. — Born at Southamptonville, June 10, 1858; received honor- 
able mention in Astrononi}-, and Scientific Oration. 

Andrew Porter Huey, Huntingdon. — Born in Huntingdon 
count}^, March 25, 1853; studying law in the oftice of Messrs. 
Speer & McMurtrie. 



112 TJie Mm of Lafayeiie, 

Henry Clay Hunt, Newton^ N, J. — Born in Blairstown, New 
Jersey, April 11, 1856; teaching at Newton. 

Robert William Playford Kennedy, Uniontoion. — Lawyer; 
born at BiownsTille, August 14, 1856; entered Junior class; 
studied law in the office of William H. Playford, at TJniontown, 
and was admitted to the Fayette county bar in January, "19. 
Mr. K. suggests that he is one of the tallest graduates, being six 
feet, three inches high, and that he has been devoting considerable 
attention to music. 

Rev. Edward Joseph Knox, Dayton^ Armstrong Go Born at 

Echo, December 12, 1852 ; entered Junior class ; studied theology 
at Drew Seminary in "14 and "78 ; taught in Dayton Academy, 
'78 ; in the ministry of the M. E. church. 

John McFarland Leech, Sallsburg. — Born near Saltsburg, 
November 12, 184*7 ; law student, and teacher. 

Charles Franklin Lewis, C.E., Palmyra, Wayne Co., N. Y. 
— Born at Knowlesville, Orleans county. New York, April 3, 
1853 ; entered Freshman, second term ; since March, '78, in active 
practice as an engineer at Palmyra. 

Ellis Reuben Lichtenwallner, Allentown. — Born at Fogles- 
ville, Lehigh county, January 19, 185T ; studying law. 

Simon Cameron Long, C.E., Pine Grove, Schuylkill Go. 

Rev. Oram Howard McAnulty, »S'era7^tow. — Entered the Jun- 
ior class from Drew Theological Seminary ; received a Douglass 
Prize in '76 ; entered the Wyoming Conference of the M. E. 
church ; pastor at Hyde Park since June, '77. 

Henry Mahn McInttre, M.E., A.C., Eadon — Born in p]as- 
ton, August 7, 1856 ; graduated as M.E. ; and by post-graduate 
course, '77-8, received A.C. ; is now assistant in the chemical 
department of Edison's Works at Menlo Park, New Jersey; 
member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Gilbert N. Marshall, Jr., Lamare, Nebraska. — From New 
York ; in General Scientific course. 

Rev. Samuel Albert Martin, Canonsburg, Washington Co. 
— Born at Canonsburg, November 1, 1853 ; graduated in Scien- 



Alumni— Class of 1877. US 

tific course at Westminster College in '72 ; entered Lafayette 
Sophomore, classical ; studied at Western Theological Seminary, 
"76-7 ; at the Fniversity of Edinburgh, and the New College of 
the Free Church of Scotland, '77-8; graduated at the Western 
Theological Seminary in '79. 

Rev. Francis Hardy Moore, Philadelphia.— Born in Phila- 
delphia, August 29, 1850; entered Sophomore ; previously a ma- 
chinist at Baldwin Locomotive Works, '07-70 ; received a Doug- 
lass Prize in '75 ; entered the ministry of the M. E. church, 
March, '77 ; now pastor of Tacony M. E. church ; residence, 252 
West Logan Square. 

James Lawson Patterson, Potlstown.— Born at Savannah, 
Ohio, August 18, 1849; General Scientific course; received his 
degree in '78 ; received the Harvey Prize and the New Shakes- 
peare Society's Prize ; since graduation, teaching in Pottstown. 

George Henry Ruggles Plumb, Kingston.— Born at Hones- 
dale, June 12, 1854; in General Scientific course ; studying law. 

Henry Albert Potter, PhiladeljMa.— Freshman and Sopho- 
more in University of Pennsylvania ; entered Junior in the Gen- 
eral Scientific course ; in the manufacturing firm of Thomas Pot- 
ter's Sons & Co., Arch street. 

McCluney Radcliffe, Leivistoivn. — Born near Lewistown, 
June 6, 1854 ; post-graduate course in Chemistry, '79 ; studying 
medicine. 

Rev. James Nelson Ramsey, Jr., Belleville, N. J. — Entered 
Junior class ; in Newark Conference of the Methodist Episcopal 
church. 

Stephen Marion Reynolds, Factory ville., Wxjoming Go. — 
Received Philological Oration; studying law in Michigan Uni- 
versity. 

Wallace Berkley Riegner, C.E., Chambersburg. — Born at 
Strasburg, Lancaster county, January 27, 1854; received the 
Junior Mathematical Prize, Astronomical Prize and Honorary 
Oration — Philosophical ; is teaching. 

James Boyd Risk, M.D., Baltimore.— Born at Muncy, Lycom- 
ing county, October 26, 1857 ; his father removing to Philadel- 



114 The Men of Lafayette. 

phiti, he commenced his course in the University of Pennsylvania; 
entered Sophomore chiss in Lafayette ; graduated in medicine at 
the Universit^^ of Penns3'lvania, '79; resides at corner of Charles 
and Read streets, Baltimore. 

Harry Omar Scott, Confluence, Somerset Co Born at La- 

trobe, August 5, 1854; entered Sophomore; Valedictorian; 
student <it Union Tiicological Seminary, N. Y. 

John Cresswell Shumaker, Chambersbiirg.—Bovn at Aca- 
demia, Juniata county, April 7,1857; engaged in '73 on the 
locating corps of the Shenandoah Yalley Railroad ; entered 
Sophomore class ; law student in the office of Hon. J. M. Sharpe. 

Benjamin Silver, Jr., Glenville, Harford Co., Md. — Born at 
Glenville, October 29, 1857; studying medicine. 

Clinton Creveling Snyder, C.E., Espy, Columbia Co. — En- 
gaged in engineering. 

Rev. George Washington Terbusii, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. — 
Born at Poughkeepsie, January 6, 1851 ; studied at Drew Theo- 
logical Seminar}', '72-5; entered Junior class ; received Douglass 
Prize in Senior year ; pastor of St. Paul's M. E. church, Belle- 
ville, New Jerse}^, until April, '78, when he entered the New York 
Conference, and is now pastor of the 35th street M. E. church in 
NcAY York city. 

* James Tour, Jr. — From Indiana, Pa. ; entered Sophomore ; 
entered West Point Militar}' Academy-, April, '7G ; ranked first 
in his class, and there died August 21, '78. 

Frank Newcomb Turner, Port Carbon. — Born at Port Car- 
bon, September 30, 1852 ; editor of the College Journal, '76-7 ; 
received Douglass Prizes in '74-5-G ; studied at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, '77-8. 

Jacob Peter Uhler, Easton. — Born near Stockertown, 
Northampton county, August 26, 1854 ; taught in Easton, '77-8; 
studying theology in the Seminary of the Lutheran church in 
Philadelphia. 

Richard Marshall Van Horn, Hackettstown, N.J. — Born at 
Johusonsburg, New Jersey-, August 19, 1854 ; studying laAv at 
Knoxville, Iowa. 



Alumni — Class of iSjj. 115 

Lewis Ruoads Walters, CF,.^ Fhwiiixville. — While in college 
he became Captain of Company D,and Lieutenant Colonel of the 
11th Regiment of National Guards of Pennsylvania; in profes- 
sional practice. 

Artemus Crawford Ward, York\ Nebraska. — From Le Roy, 
>.'ew York ; General Scientific course. 

George Miles Wells, JEaston. — Born at South Easton, Feb- 
ruary 9, 1855 ; received the Prize Scholarship in the Easton High 
School ; class Secretary ; and since graduation has been in the 
office of the Andover Iron Company, Phillipsburg, N. J. 

Martin Jacob Youngblood, Hackettstown, N. J. — Born at 
Johnsonsburg, New Jersey, December 25, 1854 ; studying law. 

CLASS OF 1878. 

James Arnold Aiman, Floiu-toicn, Montgomery Go. — Born 
April 8, 185^ ; teaching in Norristown ; ministry in view. 

Horace Beemer Ayres, Allamuchy, N. J. — Born at Allamu- 
chy, September 20, 1856 ; General Scientific course. 

John Charles Churchill, Jr., M.E., Oswego, N. Y. — Born 
September 20, 185G. 

William Gates Coffin, DejMsit, N.Y. — Born November 11, 
1856; General Scientific course; in September, '78, went to Bra- 
zil with an engineering corps. 

John Davidson Dorris, Huntingdon. — Born at Huntingdon, 
October 14,1858; son of Col. William Dorris, of class of '40 ; 
law student. 

Joseph Edward Durham, Watsontown, Northumberland Go. — 
Born at Dewart, October 22, 1857; received Douglass Prizes in 
classics in '75 and '76; studying law at Milton, in the ofiflce of 
Hon. Frank Bond. 

Alexander Elliott, Jr., Dover, N. Y. — Born at Dover, No- 
vember 1, 1854; studying law at Paterson, N. J., in the oflSce of 
J. W. Griggs, of '68. 

Charles B. Forney, A.C, Lebanon. — Born at Lebanon, No- 
vember 8, 1856; full Chemical course. 



116 The Men of Lafayette. 

Edmard J. Fox, Jr., Eaaton. — Born at Easton, April 3, 1858; 
graduatecl at Easton High School ; now studying law. 

Joel Scobey Gilfillan, Goatesville, Chester Go. — Born at 
Cochranvillo, May 29,1854; entered Sophomore; student in Union 
Theological Seniinary, 

James Joiinsox Grant, Navarre., Ohio. — Born June 23, 1852; 
received second Prize in Oratorj', at the Intercollegiate Contest 
in "18 ; studying law in Columbia College, New York. 

Jacob Koch GmT¥\ri], A. C, FUtsf on. — l^orn in West Pittston, 
Ijuzerne county, August 0, 1857 ; Analytical Chemist. 

CriARLES Heebner, Port Carbon. — Born at Port Carbon, Feb- 
ruary 5, 1859; received Douglass Prizes in '75-6-7, Junior 
Mathematical Prize and third prize in Junior Orator Contest ; 
Latin Salutatorian ; teaching, with law in view, 

Lewis Ahrens Hotfmat^, Beading. — Boin Pecember 30, 1855; 
is a student in the Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia. 

James Kenmick Hogg, Philadelphia. — Born August 8, 1856; 
engaged in manufacturing. 

Edwarp Everett Hoyt, Kingston, Luzerne Co. — Born Janu- 
ary 2, 1859; General Scientific course ; studying law\ 

James P. Hunter, Buggies., Ashland Co., Ohio. — Born near 
Harrisburg, Carroll county, Ohio, October 29, 1849; was brought 
up at Pccatur, Indiana ; taught before entering college; is stud}'- 
ing theology at Union Theological Seminary, New York. 

Charles Collingwood Jennings, Eat<to)K — Born in Easton, 
June 9, 1858; studying medicine in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

KouKRT Stuart Johnston, Greemnlle, fiercer Co.— Born at 
Greenville, September 27, 1857; earlier part of his course at 
Thiel College; entered Sophomore, second term; now in a bank 
and studying law. 

William Scott Kerr, Saltsburg, Indiana Co. — Born in Loy- 
alhana toMuship, Westmoreland county, February 16, 1853; en- 
tered Freshman, second term; now teaching. 



Alimtui—C/ass of 1S7S. 117 

Harry Knkcht, Easfov. — Born in Easton, December 24, 1857 ; 
General Scientific course; studying law in the office of B. F. 
Fackenthall, Esq., class of '44. 

p]invARD Arthur McLaihy, 3[onficelh, N. Y. — Born near 
Monticello, October 13, 1850; student in Union Theological 
Seminary, New York. 

James Cameron Mackenzie, Wilkes-Barre — Born at Aber- 
deen, Scotland, August 15, 1852; editor of Lafayette College 
Journal, lis ; Valedictorian; now Principal of Wilkes-Barre 
Classical School. 

George B. Markle, Jr., Jeddo, Luzerne Co. — Born in Hazle- 
ton, October 7, 1857 ; entered Sophomore in General Scientific 
course; since graduation, has been Assistant Superintendent of 
Jeddo and Highland Coal Mines. 

Charles Hinsmore Marvin, C.E., Foxburg^ Clarion Co. — 
Born at Kipley, Chautauqua county. New York, November 25, 
1855; early removed to Erie; is engaged in banking. 

William Newton Mateer, Shippenshurg. — Born July 6, 1857 ; 
is now teaching in New "Windsor College, Mar^dand. 

Joshua Lewis Miner, Wilkes-Barre. — Born in New York 
City, November 11, 1855; studying medicine. 

Charles Thomas Officer, Council Blufs, loiva. — Born in 
Jacksonville, Illinois, March 18, 1854; General Scientific course; 
now in bank of Officer & Pusej'. 

Howell Terry Pershing, Pottsville — Son of Hon. Cyrus 
L. Pershing; born at Johnstown, March 18, 1858; graduated in 
General Scientific course, with Honorary Oration — Philosophical ; 
and has since taught in Wilkes-Barre. 

George Washington Phillips, Pleamnt Mount, Wayne Co. — 
Born at Scranton, March 10,1855; graduated with Historical 
Oration ; President of Pleasant Mount Academy since graduation. 

Samuel Wilberforce Powell, C.E., Philadelphia. — From 
Norristown; born November 3, 1847 ; was a machinist before en- 
tering college ; entered Sophomore class ; now engaged as a 
draughtsman at 1111 Walnut Street. 



118 The Men of Lafayette. 

Charles Michler Ray, C.E., Washington, D. G. — Born De- 
cember 21, 1856; appointed assistant Paymaster in the U. S. 
Navy, and confirmed by the Senate, March 3, '79. 

Charles Bement Riggs, Neiv London, Chester Co. — Born at 
Elmira, New York, December 28, 1854; received a Douglass 
Prize in '75; since graduation, Principal of New London Academy. 

George Redsecker Ross, Lebanon. — Druggist ; born at Leba- 
non, October 17, 1854; General Scientific course; student in 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. 

George Washington Sandt, Easton — Born at Stockertown, 
February 22, 1854 ; receiA'cd first prize in Junior Orator Contest 
in '77, and Honorary Mathematical Oration ; teaching in Easton, 
with the ministry in view. 

Horace Daniel Sassaman, Erwinna, Bucks Go. — Born at 
Kintnersville, June 15, 1854; received Douglass Prizes in 
'75_6-7 ; studying in Union Theological Seminar}^ 

Charles Payson Gurley Scott, TFiZ/:es-jBarre. — Born at Day- 
ton, Ohio, October 12, 1853; entered college in '71 ; course inter- 
rupted by ill health; received the Harvey Prize, the Early 
English Text Society's Prize, the "New Shakespeare " Society's 
Prize, and Honorary Philological Oration ; teaching in Wilkes- 
Barre. 

James Harvey Scott, Elizabeth, Allegheny Go. — Born in For- 
ward township, Allegheny county, Januaiy 4, 1851 ; entered 
Freshman class, third term ; law student. 

Joshua Rogers Serfass, Easton. — Born in Easton, March 20, 
1856 ; studying law in the office of D. W. Nevin, class of '75. 

William Lesley Sheafer, Pottsville. — Born at Pottsville, 
February 19, 1859; in General Scientific course. 

John Franklin Sheppard, Bridgeton, N.J. — BornatBridge- 
ton, June 21, 1854; received a Douglass Prize in '75 ; student in 
Union Theological Seminary, New York. 

John Maxwell Sherrerd, M.E., Belvidere, N. J.— Born in 
Scranton, Pa., February 26, 1859; received Junior Mathematical 



Alumni — Class of iSjS. 119 

Prize, and Honorary Scientific Oration ; also took post-grad- 
uate course in civil engineering, '78. 

Porter Wilson Shimer, M.E., Eaaton, — Born near Easton, 
March 13, 1857 ; engaged in making chemical analyses. 

Henry Snyder, E anion. ~—V>^x\\ January 30, 1858 ; received 
Honorary Classical Oration; teaching. 

Alexander Ramsey Speel, HL Paul, Minn. — Born December 
31, 1856; clerk in Pension Bureau, in Washington ; law in view. 

Russell Chidsey Stewart, Easton. — Born in South Easton, 
September 2, 1859; received second prize in Junior Orator con- 
test; studying law in Columbia College. 

George Washington Stout, Jr., Easton. — Born in Easton, 
March 6, 1859; studying medicine in the University of Pennsyl- 
vania. 

William Broadwell Sullivan, Dayton^ Ohio. Born at 

Dayton, February 13, 1856 ; law student. 

William Philip Taylor, Mooresburg, Montour Go. — Now 
teaching in the Princeton Preparatory School; law in view. 

John Charles Temple, Dayton, Ohio. — Born April 27, 1857 ; 
special student in Chemistiy, graduating with degree of B.S. 

William S. Garvin Trunkey, Franklin. — Born at Mercer, 
October 29, 1854; entered in '73; absent a j^ear, and pursued 
Senior year with class of '78; registered as a law student at 
Franklin, April, '77. 

Edwin Teel Walker, Strasburg, Lancaster Co. — Born at 
Strasburg, March 5, 1855; medical profession in view. 

Barge Christopher Weidman, Lebanon. — Born November 
29, 1856. 

John Fremont Williamson, Sidney, Hunterdon Co., N. J. — 
Born at Sidney, April 11, 1856; student of theology. 

George Franklin Pierce Young, Easton — Born in Moore 
township, Northampton county, November 5, 1852 ; clerk in the 



120 The Men of Lafayette. 

Recorder's Office in 'tl ; now a law student in the office of S. V. 
Kachline, of the class of '63, 

Thomas Oscar Young. — Easton Born in Lehigh township, 

December 16, 1854 ; General Scientific course ; studying medicine 
in the Universit^^ of Pennsylvania. 

CLASS OF 1879. 

The following are members of the Senior class at the present time, and candidates for a de- 
gree at the approaching Commencement : 

Elliott Chidsey Armstrong, Easton. — Born in Easton, March 
24, 1858; received Douglass Prizes in "1 6-1, and the third Jun- 
ior Orator Prize ; law in view. 

Jacob Edgar Belville, Foitsville. — Born at Hartsville, Bucks 
county, December 19, 1858 ; received Douglass Prizes in '16-T. 

Henry Herman Bimm, Dayton, Ohio. — Born at Dayton, No- 
vember 26, 1858. 

Edmund Swalm Boyer, Pottsville. — Born at Pottsville, October 
21, 1857 ; General Scientific course ; received the " New Shakes- 
peare" Society's Prize in "18. 

Charles Gibson Brown, Huntingdon. — Born at Huntingdon, 
July 10, 1858; law in view. 

Augustus James Burgner, Delaicare City, Del. — Born at Del- 
aware City, May 29, 1853 ; ministry in view. 

Frederick Gillett Byles, jPre^oma. — Born at Fredonia, June 
18, 1853; the study of medicine in view. 

Reed Caughey, Erie. — Son of Professor A. H.Caughey; born 
at Erie, November 13, 1859 ; law in view. 

Charles Anderson Craighead, Dayton, Ohio. — Born at Day- 
ton, August 12, 1857 ; law in view. 

Martin Luther Deitzler, Annville, Lebanon Go. — Born at 
Bernville, Berks county, February 2, 1851 ; class historian ; min- 
istry in view. 

Augustus Theodore Dobson, Chester. — Son of Rev. A. T. 
Dobson, of the class of '48 ; born at Cape May City, New Jersey, 
July 7, 1858 ; the study of medicine in view. 



Alumni — Class of iSyg. 121 

James Elliott, Plainjiehl, Cumberland Go. — Born at Plain- 
field, July 1, 1857 ; graduated at Dickinson College in '18 ; can- 
didate for degree of C.E. 

Leonard Bertner Eyster, Chamber sburg. — Born at Cham- 
berslnirg, February 24, 1859 ; received tlie Early English Text 
Society's Prize in '78. 

Irvine Moore Flinn, Newport, Del. — Born at Newport, Oc- 
tober 20, 1854; entered Sophomore; stud}' of medicine in view. 

Lewis Grant, Shenandoah. — Born at Pottsville, Schuylkill 
county, December 19, 1857 ; General Scientific course. 

Francis Heck, Paxinos. — Born at Monterey, Schuylkill 
county, May 29, 1856 ; law in view. 

Frank Whiteiiill Hinkle, Columbia. — Born March 6, 1858; 
the study of medicine in view. 

Stewart Maurice Hohl, Eanton. — Born in Easton, August 
25, 1858. 

Hiram Bacon Rowland, Indianapolis.^ Ind. — Born at North- 
w^ood, Marion count}', Indiana, Julj- 10, 1855 ; General Scientific 
course. 

William John Jones, iSlatington. — Born at Danielsville, 
Northampton county, January 27, 1858; received second Junior 
Orator Prize; law in view. 

Frank Delmar Kinnear, Franklin. — Born at Franklin, May 
21, 1856; General Scientific course; law in view. 

George Read Lawrence, Monongahela City. — Born in Wash- 
ington connty, March 7, 1858; Genei'al Scientific course, with 
Latin. 

John Benjamin Lichtenwallner, Allentown. ^Born at 

Fogelsville, Lehigh county, July 8, 1859; entered Sophomore, 
second term. 

Herman Keller McCauley, ^Ztoo?ia. — Born in Altoona, Feb- 
ruar}^ 6, 1856. 



122 The Men of Lafayette. 

George Davidson McDowell, Chambershurg, — Born at Lo- 
cust Hill, Frauklin count}', November 20, 1857 ; earl^^ removed 
to Chambersburg; law in view. 

William Hollingsworth Mackall, Elklon, Md. — Born in 
Fairfax county, Virginia, January 4, 1859. 

Jacob Levi Markel, 3Iarkelville, Perry Co. — Born at Markel- 
ville, March 10, 1855; entered Sophomore. 

Frank Pardee, Hazlefon.—iion of A. Pardee, a Trustee of 
Lafayette since 1865, and the Founder of the Pardee Scientific 
Department. 

WiNFiELD Lattin Parsons, WUkes-Barre. — Born in Wilkes- 
Barre, April 2,1857; General Scientific course; received the 
Junior Mathematical Prize. 

George Wehn Plack, Altoona. — Born at Altoona, June 2, 
1856 ; the ministry in view. 

Milton Edwin Schadt, Euch.^ville, Lehigh Co Born at 

Ruchsville, July 18, 1857. 

Irwin William Schultz, PhiUipshurg.^ N. J. — Born in Phil- 
lipsburg, December 6, 1856; law in view. 

Herbert Mendelssohn Seem, ^lartiiva Creek. — Born at 
Martin's Creek, December 17, 1857; he organized the Lafa3'ette 
Orchestra in '75, and was its leader through his entiie course. 

NoRCOM LiNiNGTON Seguin, Philadeljihta. — Born in New Or- 
leans, Louisiana, Jnnuar}' 22, 1856; was in a cotton house four 
years; in Technical course two years; then changed to Classical; 
law in view. 

Harvey Shaw, Phillipshurg.^ Centre Co. — Born near Phillips- 
burg, December 2, 1846; before entering college he taught in 
Strasburg and Titusville; ministry in view. 

Benjamin HoorMAN Silver, Glenville, Aid. — Born in Hai-- 
foi'd county, Maryland, January 11, 1857. 

Maxwell Gayley Simpson, Parkeshvrg. — Born at Parkes- 
burg, October 21, 1859; entered Sophomore; received a Douglass 
Prize in '77. 



Alumni — Class of iSyg. 123 

WiLLAiM Irwin Steans, ^Jiffiinburg^ Union Co.— Born at 
Miftlinburg, March 20, 1854; received a Douglass Prize in '7G, 
and the Uarvcy Prize in '78; editor of the College Jonr7ial,^l8-9- 
ministry in view. 

William Black Sticel, Fort Deposit^ iJ/i/.— Born at Port De- 
posit, July 4, 1858. 

Archibald Thompson Stewart, ^rogri/eriV/c, Yoi^k Co. — Born 
at Brogueville, 1854; entered Junior; the ministry in view. 

Thomas Louis Stoneroad, Dunbar, Fayette Go. — Born at 
Dunbar, November 20, 1857. 

William Henry Walters, Fhillipsburg, N. J.— Born in Phil- 
lipsburg, February 18, 1857; law in view. 

Hidetake Taro Yegawa, Nirat/ama, Idzu, Japan. — Son of 
Hidetatu Yegawa,the Governor of Idzu under the administration 
of the Tycoon; he was born April 4, 1856; early losing his 
parents, his father's sister educated him in Japanese litera- 
ture and history, and in the Chinese language. Under the ap- 
pointment of the Department of the Navy, he came to this 
country in the spring of '72, and studied at Highland Falls and 
Peekskill, N. Y. In the change of policy consequent on the es- 
tablishment of the Imperial University of Tokio and the Naval 
Academy, he was recalled in '74, bnt by resigning his commis- 
sion, obtained leave to remain. He entered college in June, 
75; received the Junior Mathematical Prize, and an appointment 
for the Junior Oratorical Contest; is a candidate for the degree 
of C.E. 

Reuben Alexander Zimmerman, Andersonburg, Perry Go. — 
Born in Madison township. Perry county, September 25, 1852; 
law in view. 



The Alumni Association 

Is composed of graduates of Lafayette College and such of their 
classmates, who left college before graduation, and in good 
standing, as may have been elected. The annual meeting is held 
on Tuesday', preceding Commencement-day. 



COMMITTEE OF THE ALUMNI, 

1878-9. 

MEivfBERS Ex-Officio. — President, Hon. N. B. S\[iTnERS,LL.D., 
'36 ; Vice-President, Rev. Charles Wood, '46 ; Secretary, Prof. 
Selden J. Coffin, Ph.D., '58 ; Temporanj Clerk, Oscar J. 
Harvey, Esq., '71. 



Rev. Samuel Diokey, '3T. 
Edward F. Stewart, '30. 
Rev. Darwin .Cook, '42. 
Rev. W. S. Parsons, '45. 
Rev. Charles .1. Jones, '46. 
Hon. 0. H. Meyers, '47. 
Rev. R. B. FoRESMAN, '48, 
Thomas Gr. Gayley, '53. 
Hon. H. Hamburger, '56. 
Dr. S. G. Blythe, '60. 
Kev. J. M. NouRSK, '62. 



Dr. O. U. Allis, '64. 

Rev. W. W. Heberton, '65. 

J. Whit Wood, '66, 

Dr. R. J. Hess, '67. 

Dr. C. MclNTiRE, '68. 

W. S. Roney, '70. 

Prof. W. B. Owen, '71. 

Rev. James I. Good, '72. 

Prof. S. G. Barnes, Ph.D., '73. 

J. VV. B. Bausman, '74. 

W. S. Hetrick, '75. 






^^'2^2/ A-^^L^ 



Sketches of Former Students. 



Method of Arrangement. — In the earlier years of the College, the maintenance of several 
courses of study, distinct from the Classical course which led regularly to graduation, and known 
respectively as Academic, Scientific, and Normal, has caused no small difficulty in the proper 
classification of the following names ; this may, therefore, not have been done with entire accu- 
racy. The arrangement adopted in the following pages, until these courses were discontinued, 
is to class the names according to the year of entrance, in a double alphabetical list ; the first 
containing those who are known to have entered college classes, or who, after a preparatory- 
course, reached college standing ; the second embracing those whose course is not known to 
have extended beyond preparatory studies. 



ENTERED IN 1832. 

John Adams, Cedar Rapids^ loiva.' — Merchant; from Frank- 
ford; born in 1814; in college two years; then studied at Rut- 
gers College; resided some years in Springfield, Ills.; then re- 
turned to Frankford ; now resides at Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

*James Barber. — From vicinity of Belvidere, N. J.; born in 
1817; in college two years; died near Pittston, about 1840. 

*Rev. Andrew Barr Born near Turbotville, Northumber- 
land county, September 28, 1808; a descendant, on his mother's 
side, of the Rev. John Rowan, whose life is found in Sprague's 
Annals; in college several 3'ears; afterward at Union; studied 
theology under Rev. Andrew Russell, of Newark, Del.; preached 
at Elkton, Md., and Pencader about six months; went South for 
health, and died at Mobile, July 1, '40. 

Rev. John Lansing Burrows, D.D., Louisville^ Ky. — Born at 
Albany, N. Y., Feb. 14, 1814; brought up in Bucks county. Pa.; 
in Union College, '34-6 ; ordained at Poughkeepsie, '31, Baptist; 
taught tw^o years at Shelby ville and Elizabethtown, Ky.; gathered 
and organized the churches of Owensboro and Henderson, Ky. ; 
pastor in Philadelphia, '40-54, where he organized the Broad 



12G The Men of Lafayette. 

Street cluirch; First Baptist {'hureh, Hielimoud, Va., '54-74; aud 
since Jan. 1, '75, at Louisville; received from Madison Universi- 
t3', N. Y., honorar}'^ A.M. and D.D. 

Zephaniah Butt, M.D., Ocala, Marion Go.^ Florida. — Born 
near Millville, Columbia county, 1810; graduated at Jefferson 
Medical College, '41 ; practiced a short time in Schuylkill county ; 
thence to Lincolnton, N. C. ; tiience to Florida. 

James Campbell, CZan'on.— Lawyer ; born at Kishacoquillas 
Valley, Mifflin count}' ; in college one year ; graduated at Jeffer- 
son College, '37 ; admitted to the bar of Mifflin county, Jan., 
'40 ; practiced law at Clarion from the organization of the county, 
in '40, except while serving as President Judge of that district 
(ISth , from 'Gl to "71. 

Rev. Benjamin Carrell, A.M., Lamhi'/rlviUe.N. J. — Born in 
Bucks count}' Pa., 1809; in college from '82 to '35 ; graduated 
at Union College, '3H ; then entered Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, and giaduated ; pastor at Waynesburg and Newton-Hamil- 
ton, Pa. ; Amwell, N. J. ; Clover Hill ; now at Lambertville. 

*Rev. John J. Carrell, A.M. — Born in Tinicum, Bucks coun- 
ty', March 20, 1812; founder of the Franklin Literary Society ;f 
a member of the class of '36 ; but left college during Senior year 
to study at Princeton Theological Seminar}^ ; licensed Oct. 15, 
'38; ordained Nov. 19, '39; preached at Oxford and Harmony, 

f The Washington Literary Society, which at first bore the name of Philoma- 
thean, was organized in the Manual Labor Academy of Pennsylvania at 
Germantown, July 4, 1830, chiefly by the endeavors of Messrs. S. M. Hamill and 
B. Tyler, of whom sketches are given in the ensuing pages. In 1831 a paper 
was drawn up and circulated by Mr. J. J. Carrell, which resulted in the organi- 
zation of the Franklin Literary Society, November 26, 1 83 1. The paper was 
signed by twelve persons, of whom sketches of Messrs. Burton, Benjamin 
Carrell, John J. Carrell, Harvey, Horton, Mitchell, Nivin, and Struthers, are 
given above. The remaining signers ceased their connection with the Society on 
its transfer to Easton in the following Spring; they were Messrs. H. S. Elder 
and Graef, from Philadelphia, Joseph H. Schreiner and J. P. Tustin. 

Joseph H. Schrkiner was born in Philadelphia, in 1813 ; studied under Dr. 
Junkin until March '32 ; entered Rutgers College, but because of impaired health 
left before graduation ; conducted a private school in his native city, and after- 
ward, for seventeen years, taught in one of the public schools ; then dealt in coal 



Former Students — 18^2. 127 

N. J., until '48 ; at Riegelsville, Pti., until '53 ; at Groveland, N. 
Y., until Oct. 21, '62, when he was commissioned chaplain of the 
9th N. J. Regiment ; his health failing, he resided in Easton after 
'63, and preached almost constantly', but without a pastoral 
charge, until his death, June 21, "77 ; received A.M. at Lafayette 
in '42. The first instance of the son of a former student of Lafa}-- 
ette matiiculating in Alma Mater, was that of his son, Captain 
Edward H. Carrell, of the class of '6!, a youth w'ho fell in his 
country's service. 

John Jerome Delatour.— From Xew York; born 1815; of 
French oiigin; on leaving Lafayette he entered Union College; 
went to Kentucky. 

Rev. Henry C. Fries, Laurel^ DeL — Boin at Frankford, Pa., 
Sept. 29, 1813; left college on account of ill health; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminar}' in '37 ; licensed to preach in 
'36 ; has been engaged in the ministr}' and in teaching. 

Rev. Isaac Hall, I'iqva^ Ohio. — Born in Maryland, in 1810; 
student at Princeton Theological Seminary for two years, '36-7 ; 
licensed hy Presbytery of Xewton, April 24, '39; in Presbytery 
of Baltimore, Md., '42-54; preaching at Fianklinville, Md.; 
has been a stated supply in Pa., Md., and Ohio; not ordained ; 
has resided at Piqua, Ohio, since '54. 

Rev. Samuel M. Hamill, D.D., Laivrencerille, N. J. — A native 
of Montgomery county ; in the winter of '32-3 he left college, en- 
tered Jefferson, and there graduated in '34; in partnership with 
his brother. Rev. Hugh Hamill, D.D., he has for nearly a half 
century been the successful Piincipal of the Lawrenceville Clas- 
sical and Commercial High School, from which, in recent years, 
about fifty have entered Lafayette; he is President of the New 
Jersey Historical Society. 

for several years ; was one of the founders of the Greenhill Presbyterian church ; 
and since '62 has been the active and earnest General Superintendent of the 
work of the Philadelphia Tract and Mission Society, at 1224 Chestnut Street. 

Rev. Josiah P. Tustin, D.D., was a native of Pennsylvania ; left the tuition 
of Dr. Junkin in March, '32 , graduated at Brown University ; entered the Bap- 
tist ministry ; was pastor of prominent churches in Providence and elsewhere; 
aljout fifteen years since changed his ecclesiastical connection to the Protestant 
Episcopal church, was located in Savannah, and now resides in Dresden, Germany. 



128 The Men of Lafayette. 

Chakles Washington Harvey, A.M., M.D., Bulfalo., N.Y. — 
Dentist; born at Albanj^, N. Y., March 1*7, 1810; in college a 
year; then two years at Union College, where he was one of the 
seven founders of the Psi Upsilon; graduated at Buffalo 
Medical College, '36, and at Baltimore Dental College; received 
A.M. from Lafayette, '66; President of the Buffalo Medical As- 
sociation; member of Erie County Medical Society, New York 
State Dental Society, and American Medical Association. 

*OwEN W. Hess. — Lawyer; son of George Hess, a Trustee ; 
born July 22, 1819; in college three 3'ears; admitted to the bar 
in Easton, Nov. 16, '41 ; died in Easton, Jul}' 14, '41, leaving a 
wife and two children. 

* Ambrose Horton. — From Putnam county, N. Y. ; died at 
college, October 27, 1832, aged 25; a monument was erected to 
his memory by the Franklin Literary Society', in the cemetery' of 
the First Presbyterian church, Easton. 

*Rev. William D. Howard, D.D. — Born in Philadelphia, 
July 28, 1814; in college, '32-3; studied theology with the Rev. 
Dr. Wm. Neil, of Philadelphia; ordained and installed pastor of 
Frankford Presbyterian church, in Philadelphia, March, '38, and 
remained ten years; pastor of Second Presbyterian church, Pitts- 
burg, where he died suddenly, Sept. 22, "76, aged 62 ; he was a 
member of the General Assembly's Committee on Foreign Mis- 
sions, and Director of the Western Theological Seminary. 

*Rev. Levi Janvier, D.D. — Born at Pittsgrove, N. J.. April 
25,1816; in college two years ; then entered Junior at Prince- 
ton, and there graduated in '35, with Latin Salutatory; studied 
theology two 3'ears at Princeton ; Foreign missionary at Lodiana, 
India, from '41 until his death, March 24, '64; author of a 
dictionary of the Punjabi language, 438 pp., quarto, 1856; also, 
of a grammar of the same ; he was slain by a fanatic Akali Sikh, 
who was executed for the crime. [Johnson's Cyclopedia.] 

*PniLiP Henry Janvier. — Brother of the preceding; born at 
Pittsgrove, N. J., 1812, and there died March 24, '33. 

John Miller Junkin, A.M., M.D , Easton. — Eldest son of 
President Junkin; born in Milton, July 21, 1821; commenced 



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his education in the Preparatory Department at its opening, in 
'32, and in the middle of his Senior year went with his father to 
Miami University, and there graduated in the ensuing autumn, 
'41, afterward receiving the degree of A.M., ad eundem from 
Lafayette in '45; graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in 
'45; practiced in Schuylkill count}', Trenton, N. J., and at 
Holmesburg, '45-59, and in Easton since '68; in the war he 
served three years as Surgeon of the 9th and 4th Regiments of 
Pa. Volunteer Cavalry; member of the County and State Medical 
Societies of Pennsylvania and of the Easton School Board. 

*Rev. James R. Lewis. — Born in Middlesex count}-, N. J., 
about 1810; in college several years; entered Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary in '38, and in '39 died, before completing the 
tirst year's study. "Of high scholarship; a candidate for the 
ministry under the care of the Presbytery of Newton." 

Thomas R. F. A. Mitchell.— Son of A. W. Mitchell, M.D., 
the business agent of the Presbyterian Board of Publication; 
from Alabama; born in 1815; in college two years; located in 
Philadelphia in mercantile business. 

Thomas Henry Morgan. — From Connecticut; born in 1810; 
in college a year. 

*RobertN. Nisbet. — From New York Cit}'; born in 1810; in 
college two j-ears; married and settled in St. Louis, Mo., and 
there died on November 6, '78. 

*Rev. Robert Osborn. — Born at Cedarville, N. J., August 
27, 1813 ; at Germantown Manual Labor Academy and Lafayette, 
'31-3; graduated at Jefferson College, '34; taught in '35; gradu- 
ated at Princeton* Theological Seminar}^, '39; preached eighteen 
years at Point Pleasant, W. Ya., and resigned in '57 because of 
ill health; returned to Cedarville, and there died, Jul}' 13, '78, 
aged 64. "A. truly lovely character; an excellent scholar, and 
graceful writer." 

Rev. Joshua Phelps, D.D., Santa Barbara^ Cal. — Born 1812; 
entered college from Albany, N. Y.; graduated at Union Col- 
lege, '36; received D.D. at Centre College, '56; preached at 
Monticello, Fla.; Quincy, 111.; First Church, Dubuque, Iowa; 



130 The Men of Lafayette. 

President Alexander College; preached at Beloit, Wis. ; Sacra- 
mento, Cal. ; now at Santa Barbara. 

Salmon a. Phelps, A.M., Greenville^ Ills Lawyer; brotlier 

of the preceding; from Albany, N. Y. ; boin in 1810; graduated 
at Union College, '38. 

*CiTARLES Ramsey. — Lawyer; born in East Waterford, Juniata 
county. Pa., Feb. 11, 1810 ; graduated at Jefferson College, '35; 
taught in Mississippi and Bedford, Pa., until '38 ; taught, and 
studied law in Miss, until Jan., '41 ; practiced law in New Oi'- 
leans, and there died, Sept., '41. 

Bennington F. Randolph, A.M., Jer-ftey Cilij^N.J. — Lawyer 
and Judge; born 1816 ; admitted to the bar of New Jersey, Feb., 
'39; Counsellor, Feb., '42; Director of Princeton Theological 
Seminary. 

*JoHN Brown Sherrerd, A.M., M.D, Born in Warren 

county, N. J., Nov. 19, 1820 ; in college from '32 to '33 ; entered 
College of New Jersey as Junior, and graduated in '39; gradu- 
ated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, '45 ; 
practiced at Belvidere until '4(i ; then in the Iron business in 
Virginia until '50 ; then practiced medicine at Scranton until his 
death there. May 3, '52. 

Samuel Sherrerd, A.M., Behmlere^ N. J. — Born in Philadel- 
phia, April 25, 1819 ; in college from Summer, '32, to Fall, '33 ; 
graduated at College of New Jerse}', '38 ; was civil engineer on 
the Ijehigh two years ; then studied law, and was admitted to the 
bar at Easton, April 25, '42; engaged in Bath Iron Works, 
Virginia, '45-50 ; in railroad and mining operations at Scranton, 
'50-'2 ; superintended the construction of the "first coal-breaker 
at Scranton, and also the first shipment of coal from that place ; 
in legal practice, '57-63 ; Dickson Manufacturing Company, '64-7 ; 
horticulture at Oxford, N. J., '68-73 ; in legal pursuits since; 
President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for Warren 
county, '74-7. [For full sketch, see Biographical Annals of N.J. ] 

*JoHN M. Seigfhied. — Agent of Express Company in Easton ; 
a zealous numismatist and collector of American autographs ; 
died in Easton, April 1, '71. 



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*Rkv. Ji)Sp:pii VV. Smjtii. — From Miiiiie; bom in 1810; left 
Lafayette to enter Junior at Union College, wliere lie graduated 
in '34, and entered the ministry. 

Oliver W. Stevens. — From Liberty eounty, Georgia; born 
in 1812 ; in college a year; in public life in Georgia. 

James 11. Stkutiiers, A.M., Maach Cluink. — Born at Paisley, 
Scotland, August 3, 1815 ; in college, '32-5; studied law with 
Hon. J. M. Porter, at Easton ; admitted to the bar, August 17, 
'36 ; Treasurer of Carbon county, '51-2 ; in State Legislature 
from Carbon and Lehigh counties, '44-5, and '53-5. 

William A. Taylor, New York City. — From New York city ; 
born in 1810 ; in college tvvo years, '32-4 ; went South in early 
life ; returning to New York, was member of the Legislature in 
'53. 

John Ten Brook, M.D., ParLs, III. — Born in Northumberland 
county, December 21, 1808 ; in college from '32 to '3G; first Pres- 
ident of the Lafa^'ette Temperance Society ; graduated at Jelier- 
son Medical College, '38, and immediately located at his present 
home ; in Feb., '68, received honorary degree of M.D. from Rush 
Medical College in Chicago ; member of Illinois Legislature in 
'62 ; volunteer surgeon at the battle of Pittsburg Landing. 

Rev. Philip J. Timlow, M.D., Gap^ Layicaater Go. — Born 
in 1808; graduated as a physician, and was a partner with the 
father of- Hon. Wm. H. Seward, at Florida, N. Y., where he united 
with the church ; entered Lafayette and at the end of Freshman 
year he entered Union College, and graduated in '37 ; ordained 
and installed at Bellevue, Lancaster county. May, '39 ; installed 
over Leacock Presbyterian church, Nov. 4, '46. 

* Absalom Townsend Born in Mifflin county, March 27, 

1814; in college, '32-3; student at Union College, '34-5 ; taught 
in Georgia, and taught and studied law in New Berlin, where he 
died, Jan. 26, '40, just before his expected admission to the bar; 
buried at Little Valley church. 

*Rev. Benjamin Tyler. — Born in Greenwich, Cumberland 
county, N. J,, in 1810; founded the Washington Literary 



13-2 The Men of Lafayette. 

Society (then "Philomathean "), July 4, '30; left college at the 
end of Sophomore year ; studied at Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary two years ; licensed to preach by Presbytery of Philadel- 
phia ; ordained and installed pastor at Deerfleld, N, J,, '37-42, 
when his health failed ; died at iiis father's the following year. 
[See Dr. S. M. Hamill's address before the W.L. S., Feb. 22,'67.] 

Rev. Charles Flayel Worrell, P.D., PerrineriUe, N. J. — 
One of seven sons of (jinaker parentage, all of whom became 
teachers of music, and three of them Presbyterian ministers ; he 
was born in UwchUind, Chester county, Pa,, June 30, 1805; 
taught in Sussex county, N. J., three years before entering col- 
lege ; assisted President Junkin in laying the first stone in the 
foundation of South College ; left in '36, and graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, '39; licensed at Washington, N. J., 
Oct. 2, '39; ordained, Dec. 16, '41; pastor at Perrineville 
twenty-seven years, and at Squan Village, in the same Presbytery, 
since '69 ; received degree of A.M. from Lafayette in '58, and 
D.D. in '62. 

*Rev. Joseph Worrell. — Brother of the preceding ; born in 
Chester county, 1801 ; he pursued his literary and theological 
courses under President Jenkin, '30-5 ; was licensed to preach, 
Oct. 7, '35; preached in churches near Easton, '35-51 ; and at 
Chili, 111., from '51 until his death, Dec. 28, '68, aged 67. ''An 
able defender of the sterner teachings of Calvanism.'' 

Jacob Abel, MorriMown, N. ./.—From Faston: born 1822 
farmer, near Morristown. 

George Abel, Easton.— '^ovn in 1818 ; has always resided in 
Easton, 

John Abel, Boonton. N. J. — From Easton; born in 1818; en- 
gaged in iron works. 

Robert Bourne— From New York ; his father was the editor 
of the Protestant Standard. 

Aaron T. Burton. — From Virginia; born in 1817; railroad 
conductor in Virginia in '60. 

*JoHN C. Cash, — Major in U. S. Marines; born in Philadel- 
delphia, March 15, 1817; a student in '32-6; conveyancer and 



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special agent in the Post-oflice Department ; entered U. S. 
Marine Corps as Second Lieutenant, March 14, '45 ; cruised in 
the PaciBc ; in '61, Captain in the Marines; in General Orders 
he was complimented for his successful re-enforcing of Fort Pick- 
ens ; Mnjor and Paymaster from Nov. 20, '62 ; stationed at 
Washington, D. C, and engaged in active duty until his sudden 
death, March 8, '77; his family reside in Pliiladelphia. [Bio- 
grapiiicnl Encyclopedia of Eminent Pennsylvanians.] 

Rev. Nathan F. Chapman. — From Connecticut; born in 
1812; pastor of Reformed Dutch church, Saugerties, N.Y.; now 
pastor near Baltimore. 

Amos Diller. — From liancaster county; boin in 1816; a 
student one term. 

Rev. Adam C. Dunham — From Liberty county, Georgia; 
born in 1816; a student two years ; entered the ministry of the 
Baptist church, and attained prominence in Georgia. 

James French. — From Alabama ; born in Ireland, about 1809 ; 
a student in '33-4. 

*Frederick Gwinner. — Lawyer ; born at Saucon, Oct. 2, 
1817 ; a student in '32-3, and afterward for a time at Jefferson 
College ; studied law under Thomas Ross, at Doylestown, Bucks 
county, and was admitted to the bar in '39 ; in the following year 
located at Libert}', Clay county. Mo., where he spent his entire 
life in the practice of his profession, and there died, June 28, '70. 

" He won a reputation as an eloquent pleader and a sound 
lawyer." His 3'ounger brother, Henry W. Gwinner, of the Penn- 
sylvania Railroad, was in the class of '38. 

Aaron 0. Hope, Easton. — Born 1810 ; received as a candi- 
date for the ministry by the Presbytery of Newton, Nov. '31 ; 
studies interrupted by ill health, '33 ; mechanic in Easton, 

*Lester Holt. — From Ulster county, N.Y.; born about 1809 ; 
a student one term ; died earl3^ 

Solon Horn, A.M., New York City From Easton ; born in 

1814; resided in the South for ten years; in '49 he established 



134 Ihe Men of Lafayette. 

in New York Horn''s U. S. Railroad Gazette^ and conducted it 
for six years ; has since been engaged in advertising ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '72. 

*SiDNEY M. Layton.— Born in 1812 ; from New York cit}-; he 
was a student for one term ; engaged in business in Newark. N. J., 
where also he held various local offices ; in July, '62, he was 
appointed First Lieutenant, and afterward Captain in the 11th 
N. J. Infantry, On the night of June 16, '64, in an attack on our 
lines, before Petersburg, Va., he was severely wounded, and died 
before morning. He left a wife and children in Newark. 

James W. Long, Easton. — Born in Durham, Bucks county, 
1815 ; a student in '32-4 ; then in mercantile life in Philadelphia 
until '40 ; in South Easton until '43 ; in Durham until '50 ; since 
'50 in mercantile business in Phillipsburg, N. J. ; a director of 
the Easton National Bank, Delaware Bridge and Water Compa- 
nies, and for the past thirty years an elder in the church ; while 
residing in Durham he was a member of the Pennsylvania Legis- 
lature, '47-9. 

Casper F. Marstin. — From New York city; born in 1812. 

Thomas S. Moxley.— From Vermont ; born in 1810 : a student 
one term. 

Joseph Newnan, iVas/iw7/e, Tenn. — From Nashville ; born in 
1817 ; a student three terms. 

*RusH Newnan From Nashville ; born in 1812; a student 

one term. 

*Edwin M. NiviN. — From Delaware ; a student in '32-3 ; in 
business at Wilmington, Del., and there died, Feb. 19, '65, aged 
53. 

*Abner Hayden Nott. — P^rom Schenectady, N. Y. ; a student 
one year; church -organist ; went South. 

Robert Petway, M.D., White Bluff, Tenn. — From Tennessee ; 
born in 1813 ; a student three terms. 

Ralph Pomeroy. — From Philadelphia; a student one term. 

*Rev. Jacob Rhodes. — From Philadelphia; born in 1802; a 
student in '32-3 ; he was for some years pastor of a New School 
Presbyterian church in the vicinity of Newark, N. J., and then 



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entered the ministry of the Episcopal church in New Jersey, in 
which relation he continued until his death, about '60. 

Henry W. Shouse, Easton^—Vrova Easton; born in 1818; 
for many years lumber manufacturer at Hawley ; since '71, in 
Easton, cashier of Merchants' Bank. 

Evan iSLouuii, A M., JM.P., South J'Jasfon. — Graduated at Jef- 
ferson Medical College, 1835, and has since practiced at South 
Easton ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '(i(i. 

Samuel Sttjrueon. — From Pike county; born in 1821; a 
student two terms ; his father, a Presbyterian clergyman, early 
removed to Ohio. 

RosNAL J. W. TiLSON. — From Ulster county, N.Y. ; born in 
1810 ; a student one term. 



Of the following, who entered in 1832, no information has 
been obtained; 

H. L. Brown. — From Harrisburg. 
William P. Chadwick.— From Connecticut. 
W. G. GoRRKLL. — From Harford, Md. 
Evan F. Griffiths. — From New York City. 
John Hale. — From Massachusetts. 
Alexander Lee. — From Philadelphia. 

ENTERED IN 1833. 

*J. Ellis Bonham,— Lawyer; from Kingwood, Hunterdon 
count}^, N. J. ; in college from Sept., '33, to April, '36; graduated 
at Princeton, '38 ; admitted to bar of York county, and there 
located ; lield political offices ; died at Cai'lisle, Pa., about '55. 

*Daniel J. Carey. — Teacher; born in Easton, May 5, 1819; in 
Freshman class at Princeton ; afterward Sophomore at Lafayette 
in '33-4 ; for some years a merchant ; later a teacher. On the 
first day of the war he enlisted in Company C, 1st Pennsylvania 
Infantry ; then in 57th Pennsylvania Infantry, from which, being 
partially disabled b}' wounds, he was transferred to the 3d Regi- 
ment Veteran Reserve Corps ; thrice wounded ; he died of ty- 
phoid fever on Jul}' 19, '64, at Alexandria, Ya. ; interred in 
Easton Cemetery. 



136 The Men of Lafayette. 

* David T. Erskine. — From Delaware count\^ ; born in 1813 : 
in college three terms ; was di'owned. 

William M. Francis, A.M., New Wilmington, Laiurence Go. — 
Born in 1812 ; entered college from Baltimore, Md.; Speaker of 
Pennsylvania Senate, '60; Soldiers' Relief Agent for Pennsyl- 
vania, '63-4 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65. 

James Morrison Harris, A.M., Baltimore., Md. — Lawyer; 
born in Baltimore, 1821 ; in college from Nov., '33, to April, 
'35 ; admitted to the bar in '43 ; Presidential Elector in '48 ; 
Member of Congress from Maryland, '55-61 ; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '65; Commencement Orator in '61 — topic, " The 
Egyptian Prince and Hebrew Law^ Giver ;" in '76, received the 
Republican nomination for Governor of Maryland ; one of the 
founders of the Mercantile Library Association of Baltimore ; 
and President of the Trustees of the Young Men's Christian As- 
sociation ; a Trustee of Lafayette, '65-12. 

*James Hooper. — From Middlesex county, N. J.; born in 
1813; in college a year; then went to Princeton, but did not 
complete his course; died early. 

Rev, Joshua Hall McIlvaine, D.D., Newark., N.J. — Born 
at Lewes, Del., 1815 ; a student one year; graduated at Prince- 
ton, '37, and Princeton Theological Seminary, '40; pastor at 
Little Falls, N.Y., Nov., '41, to Sept., '43; organized the "West- 
minster" Presbyterian church of Utica in '44, the first church 
of that name, and the first organized with a rotary eldership in 
the Presbyterian denomination ; pastor of First Presbyterian 
church, Rochester, '48-60; Professor of Belles Lettres in Prince- 
ton College, '60-70 ; pastor of High Street church, Newark, since 
'70; received D.D. from University of Rochester, '54; author 
of works on Rhetoric and papers on Political Science, and of 
"Elocution, the Sources of its Power,'' 12mo., 1873. 

Rev. George Pearson, A.M., Smithsburg, Md. — Teacher; 
born in 1812; entered college, from Northampton county, '33; 
in the ministry of the German Reformed church. 

William H. Reed, A.M., Woodstown, N.J. — Born in 1820; 
entered college from Salem county, N. J. ; graduated at Jeff"er- 



Former Students — i8^j. l-i7 

son College, '40; admitted to New Jersey bar, '46 ; for several 
terms Superintendent of Sehools of Salem county. 

*RoBERT T. RiCHEY, M.D. — From Asbury, N. J.; graduated 
at Princeton in 1838, and at the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in '41 ; died Sept., '41, at Asbury, aged 24. 
His brother, Hon. A. G. Richey, is a Trustee of Lafayette. 

James H. Russel, Len-es, Del.— ¥ ox five 3^ears in Georgetown, 
Del. ; when Sherifi' of Sussex count}', and all the rest of his life 
at Lewes, where he is now agent for the Junction and Breakwater 
Railroad. 

John Alexander Tyler, California Lawyer; from New 

Hampshire; born in 1814; went directly to New Orleans ; taught 
in Louisiana; then studied law with Hon. Josiah Winchester, at 
Natchez; admitted to the bar by Supreme Court of Mississippi, 
Jan., '38 ; held various offices, including that of Judge; went to 
California in '49, and there engaged successfully in mining and 
ranching; at Grass Valley, Nevada county, in '70 ; present resi- 
dence not known. 

*Joseph J. Allison From Philadelphia; born in 1815; 

died earl}'. 

*Thomas Barr, A.m. — Teacher; brother of Rev. A. Barr, of 
'32 ; born in Turbotville ; after a short course he taught in 
Weaversville and Laubach, about thirty-five years; returned to 
his native place and died July 5, "74, aged 65 years; member of 
Pennsylvania Legislature, from Northampton county, '53-4 ; re- 
ceived A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 

Edwin Brown, Brooklyn^ N. ¥. — Born at Orange, N. J., Oc- 
tober 12,1819; early home in Easton and Belvidere, N. J.; a 
student one year; in mercantile life. 

Joseph P. Brown. — From Lehigh Gap; farmer and merchant 
at Dayton, Ohio, for many years, and until "17. 

William Burt, Easton. — Born in Easton, Sept. 1, 1819; a 
student in '33-4 ; engaged in upholstering. 

Rev. John Jacob Carey, Easton Born in Easton, April 1, 

1819; son of a member of the first Board of Trustees; a student 

i8 



138 The Men of Lafaydte. 

'33-4; admitted to the ministry of the M. E. church in '45; As- 
sessor of Internal Revenue, '65-8 ; now manufacturer in Easton. 

* William Carey. — Brother of the preceding; died in Wilkes- 
Barre in "75, aged 60. 

Isaiah D. Clawson, A.M., M.D., Wood^toxv-n^ N. J. — Born at 
Woodstown, N. J., March 30, 1822; a student one term, '33-4; 
graduated at College of New Jersey, '40; at Medical Department 
of Universit}^ of Pennsylvania, '43 ; member of New Jersey 
Legislature one year, '54, and of Congress four years, '55-9. 

iNGHAivi Coryell, Wa^hington^ D. G. — Manufacturer; born at 
New Hope, Bucks county, April 5,1821; a student two years, 
'33-4 ; in mercantile business in New York and Philadelphia 
eleven ^^ears ; collector on Morris Canal a year ; for three years 
a clerk in New York Custom House; pioneer in the first emigra- 
tion to California in '49; manufacturer, '51-60; bank director; 
served from '61 through the war — from Captain to Colonel, and 
Chief Quartermaster of the Department of the South; President 
of Dry Docks Rolling Mill, '66-70; since '72, a resident at the 
Capital, engaged in land claims, and interested in the proposed 
Ship Canal from New Orleans to the Gulf, and a plan for im- 
pi'oving the sanitary condition of the lower Mississippi Valley. 

Ben.taiviin M. Dusenbery, Fhlhidelphia. — Of the firm of 
Mcars & Dusenbery, printers and tyi)e-founders. 

William S. Hall. — From Sussex county, N. J.; born in 
18 '1; a student one terra. 

Jacob B. Heller, EaMon. — liumber merchant; born in Easton, 
Jan. 22, 1819; a student in '33-4; now sealer of weights and 
measures for Northampton county. 

*JoiiN S. IIoWER. — From vicinit}- of Bath ; died about 1855. 

John F. Hunt, Woodstown^ Salem Co.^ N. J. — From Woods- 
town; born in 1818; a student one year; in mercantile business 
and farming; he was elected Sheriff of Salem count}' in '64. 

*Isaiah R. McCay, M.D.— Brother of Prof. Charles F. Mc- 
Cay; Born at Northumberland, Pa., March 3, 1812; left college 
October, '33; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '36; 



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practiced at Washingtonville, and then at Beaver Meadow; Sur- 
geon of the F. S. Exploring Expedition, in '51, for Pacific Rail- 
road near the parallel of 32°, and died in this service, near Tuc- 
son, Arizona, in '58. 

''Richard Adolphus Oakford. — Civil engineer and farmer ; 
born in Philadelphia, Dec. 6, 1820; a student one year, '33-4; 
then became a civil engineer ; in '41 he moved to W^'oming VjI- 
ley, where he farmed until the vvnr; was Justice of the Peace ; 
Colonel of the 15th Regiment, and afterward of the 132d Regi- 
ment Pa, Infantry ; killed at Antietam while leading on his men ; 
interred at Wyoming Valley ; son in class of '82. 

J. T. Sanders. — From Philadelphia; born in 1813; a student 
one 3'ear ; went West. 

*Charles Snyder. — From Easton; died in California about 
1851. 



Of the following, who were preparator}- students in 1833, no 
information has been obtained : 

Thomas Brown. 

Edward Davis. — From Easton. 

J. M. Forsman. — From Durham, Bucks county. 

Osiah H. Moser. — From Easton. 

Albert Price. — From Easton. 

R. Russell. — From Milton. 

J. R. Sill. — From Easton. 

ENTERED IN 1834. 

♦William McFann Baird. — Lawyer; born in Reading, 
August 4, 1817 ; in college one year, '34-5; graduated at Dick- 
inson College, '37 ; studied law at Carlisle, Pa., two years ; ad- 
mitted to the bar, Nov., 39 ; clerk in the Treasury Department, 
Washington, '41 to '44 ; Mayor of Reading, '55-6 ; Notary Pub- 
lic, '52-7 ; Treasurer Reading Water Company, '60-5 ; Collector 
of U. IT. Internal Revenue, 8th District, '69-72 ; died at Read- 
ing, Oct. 19, '72. His family now reside at Woodbuiy, N. J. His 
brother. Prof. S. F. Baird, is the Secretary of the Smithsonian 
Institution. 

♦George H. Beaumont, M.D. — From New Hope ; in college 
until '38 ; graduated at Medical Department of the University 



140 Tlw Men of Lafayette. 

of Pennsylvania, and practiced medicine for twenty-eight 3'ears 
in Pliiladelpliia, where he died Marcli 14, '70, aged 51 ; one of the 
founders of the Union League, in Philadelphia ; buried with 
Masonic honors at New Hope. 

James C, Burt, A.M., M.D., Vernon, Jennings Co., Ind. 

*Rev. Barnabas V. Collins, A.M — Born at Ringwood, N.J., 
in 1814; lie concluded his collegiate and theological studies at 
New Brunswick, N. J., and entered the ministry of the Dutch 
Reformed church ; lie was licensed by the Classis of New York 
in July, '42, and was pastor at West Farms, N. Y., '42-5 ; at 
Ponds, Bergen county, N. J., '45-''6*7; after '67, he resided at 
Passaic, N. J., and although in failing health he preached fre- 
quently ; while visiting his son, I)r. James W. Collins, in Morris 
county, he died, July 23, '77, aged 63 ; his tracts on Temperance 
are noticed in Corwin's "Publications of Ministers of the Re- 
formed Church." 

Rev. Samuel Fisher Colt, A.M., Laporte. — Entered college 
from Newark, N. J. ; he remained through the greater part of the 
course ; was at Princeton Theological Seminary three years, '38- 
41 ; preached in New Jersey, and Wyalusing, Pa. ; in '54 founded 
the Susquehanna Collegiate Institute, at Towanda.at which many 
students afterward were prepared for Lafayette ; pastor of the 
Second Presbyterian church at Pottsville ; chaplain of the 96th 
Pennsylvania Regiment; Secretary of Presbyterian General As- 
sembly's Educational Committee on the Freedmen, in '64-5 ; re- 
ceived degree of A.M. from Lafayette in '47 ; preached at Wy- 
sauking, ''71-3; and at Laporte, Sullivan county, since '73; 
Trustee of Laftiyette since "57. 

William S. Cox, A.M. — Son of a Surgeon in the Tripolitan 
fleet, U. S. Nav3'^ ; was Junior Orator in '37 ; left college in his 
Senior 3'^ear ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '62, being then a 
lawyer in Pliiladelpliia ; for a time resided in Wilkes-Barre. 

*W. R. Foreman. — From Baltimore; engaged in business, and 
died early. 

"Rev. Daniel Gaston, A.M. — Born in Turbot; for three years 
business agent of the Manual Labor Department of the German- 
town Academy, and of the College ; in '35 left college for Prince- 



Former Students — iSj^. 141 

ton Theological Seminary ; in ';J7-8 gathered the churcli of Bea- 
ver Meadow ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '45 ; went to Co- 
hocksink church, Philadelphia, in '44 ; and there died, April 29, 
'65. [Wilson's Piesbjterian Historical Almanac, 1866.] 

John W. Garrett, A.M., BaUimore^ Md. — President of the 
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad ; born in Baltimore ; in college, 
'34-5 ; he received the degree of A.M. from Lafayette in '65 ; 
and since '66 has been a member of the Board of Examinei'S in 
the Pardee Scientific Department 5 he is a liberal patron of the 
fine arts, and a large donor to the Peabody Institute in Balti- 
more ; the remarkable Papyrus-Scroll, in the college reading- 
room, is his gift; since '56 he has been at the head of the Balti- 
more and Ohio Railroad. 

Lewers Dixon Gray, A.M., M.D., Jersey City^ N.J. — Born in 
Easton, Dec. 15, 1823; graduated at Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, '44 ; practiced medicine from '45 to 
May, '54 ; in coal business at 1 1 1 Broadway, from '59 to '75; and 
since '75 agent of the Thomas Iron Company; received degree of 
A.M. from Lafayette in '48. 

Robert M. Hasbrouck, A.M., 7Vq//, N. Y. — Civil Engineer ; 
born at Albany, N. Y., Oct. 3, 1822; in college in '34-5, and 
again '38-9; Engineer on the Croton Aqueduct, and engaged in 
mercantile business, '44 ; City Engineer of Troy, X. Y. ; High 
Bridge, '39 41 ; on Erie Canal enlargement, "41-4; member of 
the X. Y. Legislature in '65 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in 
'66 ; since '75, City Engineer of Troy. 

*Joseph Henderson. — Physician ; from vicinity of Dewart, 
Northumberland county ; in college several 3'ears, and then 
studied in Medical Depaitment of the Universit}'^ of Pennsylva- 
nia, but because of poor health left before graduation ; practiced 
medicine at Mansfield, Ohio, and there died about '53. 

*Rev. Horatio Stockton Howell, A.M. — Born at Ewing, N. 
J., August 14, 1820 ; in college one year, '35-6 ; taught in Harts- 
ville Seminary ; in '42 he entered Union Theological Seminary ; 
and in '45 graduated and was licensed ; preached at East White- 
land, Pa. ; Elkton, Md ; Pcncader, Del. ; and Delaware Water 
Gap, Xew^ School Presbyterian churches ; chaplain of the 90th 



142 The Men of Lafaycite. 

Regiment Pennsylvania Infantry, '61-3, when he fell in the bat- 
tle of -Gettysburg, July 1, '03, pierced by the bullet of a sharp- 
shooter, as he stood in the doorway of a hospital. 

'■'John Janvier. — Born in Delaware, near Cantwell's Bridge; 
graduated at College of New Jersey' in '40 ; studied at Princeton 
Theological Seminary two years, but never preached ; Teller of 
the New Castle County National Bank, at Odessa, Del., for a 
number of years ; and since '66, Cashier of the Oxford National 
Bank, Chester county, and also an elder in the church; died at 
Oxford, June, '78. 

William C. Logan, A.M., FederaUhurg^ Md Law^^er ; ad- 
mitted to Northampton county bar, Jan. 22, '39 ; received A. M. 
from Lafaj'ette in '65 ; from '66-YO, oil manufacturer in Phila- 
delphia ; since '70 at Federalsburg. 

''Charles B. MALLEiiy.-Son of Hon. Garriek Mallery ; was 
Junior Orator in '37; served in the Mexican war; becamea civil 
engineer, and died in Georgia while constructing the Brunswick 
railroad. 

*Edward G. Mallery. — Lawyer; brother of the preceding; 
was a Junior Orator in '37 ; served in the Mexican war, and died 
in Mexico. 

James Monaghan, A.M., St. Louis^ Mo. — LaAvyer and editor; 
born in Chester county. Pa., Jan., 1812; leaving college before 
graduation, he studied law in the office of Hon. James M. Porter, 
Easton, being at the same time connected with the publication of 
the Easton Sentinel ; in '49 he removed to Missouri, and was 
engaged for some time in conducting a newspaper in Louisiana 
in that State ; subsequently he held an important position on the 
e'ditorial staff of the St. Louis Republican ; he has always taken 
a prominent part in the political issues of the State; his political 
aflSnities have been with the Democratic part}' throughout; he is 
at present in the office of the St. Louis Times. 

Jonathan J. Monaghan, West Chester. — Born in Chester coun- 
ty, Aug. 7, 1813 ; entered Lafayette in fall of '34 ; he was seized 
with protracted illness during his first vacation, and did not re- 
turn to college ; he moved with his family to Missouri in Nov., 



Former SfiKhiiis — iSj^. 143 

'53, locating first in Pike county, but subsequently in Pettis 
county-, where he improved several valuable propeities, and took 
an active part in the early development of the country ; returning 
to the East in the spring of '78, he located in West Chester. His 
son, James Monaghan, C.P] , graduated in '76. 

*Gen. Andrew Porter, A.M. — From Detroit; a son of Hon. 
George B. Pojter, Gove riior of Michigan ; boin in Lancaster, 
Pa. ; in college, '04-5; studied at West Point, but did not com- 
plete the course ; distinguished himself in the Mexican war ; ap- 
pointed Colonel of the IGth U. vS. Infantry, May 14, '61, and of 
the Colonels in the regular service was the first to attain the rank 
of Brigadier General, in the ensuing promotions, being confirmed 
as such on May 17. '62 ; he was Provost-Marshal-General during 
McClellan's peninsular campaign ; he resigned his commission 
after the war, and went to Europe, on account of ill health con- 
tracted in the service; his wife was the daughter of Major John 
Biddle, of Philadelphia, and a yiece of the eminent banker, 
Nicholas Biddle ; he received the degree of A.M. from Lafaj^ette 
in '65; he died in Paris, Jan.*5, '72, aged 52. [Parke Godwin's 
C^'clopedia of Biography.] 

*Georgk p. Porter — 'A brother of the preceding; born in 
Lancaster, Pa.; in college, '34-6; died in Lancaster, Feb. 11, '62. 

Alexander Ramsey, A.M., *V/. Panl^ Minn. — Lawyer; born 
near Harrisburg; in college from Sept., '34, to April, '35; ad- 
mitted to the bar, Aug. 19, '44 ; Presidential Elector in '40 ; Clerk 
of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives in '41 ; Repre- 
sentative in Congress from the Harrisburg District, '43-7 ; was 
the first Territorial Governor of Minnesota, from '49-53 ; by 
popular election, he was the second Governor of the newly organ- 
ized State of Minnesota, '58-62 ; from '63 to '75 U. S. Senator 
from Minnesota, and a member of the committee on Post Offices 
and Post Roads ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65. 

Sylvester N. Rich, A.M., Fhiladeljihia.— Lawyer ; from Bucks 
county; in college a 3'ear ; District Attorney, '59 ; received A.M. 
from Lafayette in '66; resides at 1601 North 17th Street. 

*Rev. William Riddle. — Born in Scotland ; in college two 
years ; graduated at College of New Jersey in '37, and at Prince- 



144 The Men of Lafayette. 

ton Theological Seminary in '40 ; ordained, Oct. 5, '41 ; is reported 
to have lived in the viciiiit}- of Beaver, Pa., until '45, after which 
he preached and taught in Mississippi, chiefly at Jaynesviile, Port 
Gibson, and Sidon, until '62, when, in infirm health, he sought a 
home in his native land, and die(V at Kirn Greenock, Dec. 7, '76, 
aged about 67 ; as corres]>ondent of The Presbyterian., iiis num 
de plume was '• Rutherglen." 

Robert C. Ross, A.M. — Teacher; he taught in Muncy, Lewis- 
burg, and Danville ; in '49, while a resident of Danville, he re- 
ceived A.M. from Lafayette ; subsequently removed to Sterling, 
111., where he married. 

Thomas Ryerson, A.M., M.D., JSfeu-fon, N. J. — In college a 
3"ear ; graduated at Princeton in "40 ; a member of various Med- 
ical Societies, and an elder in the church ; he read the Centennial 
Report of the Medical Society of New Jersey in '66. 

*JoHN Terhune, A.m. — From Somerset county, N. ,]. ; grad- 
uated at the College of New Jersey in '37 ; died early. 

John Woolverton Barcroft, M.D., Yorkana, York Co. — 
Born near Sergeantsville, N. J , March 4, 1817; a student one 
term ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '44 ; practiced 
five years at Rosemont, N. J. ; then engaged in manufacturing 
lumber in Fairfsx county, Va., where he was Justice of the Peace, 
and afterward Judge of the County Courts; since '72, farming in 
York county. 

*Rev. John Barnes. — A minister in the M.E.churcli, and died 
early in Bradford county. 

^Edward A. Barnet. — From Easton; Lieutenant Commander 
in the U. S. Navy ; died in Philadelphia in '64. 

*Lewis Coryell Biles. — Son of William Biles, lumber mer- 
chant, of Lambertville, N. J. ; he studied law in Indianapolis, 
and took high rank in the profession ; died at the early age of 30. 

*Jacob Bloom. — The oldest matriculant of Lafayette ; born 
July 20, 1791, in Hunterdon county, N. J., where he spent his 
entire life ; he taught in the common schools for many 3^ears, and 
was familiarly' known as Teacher Bloom. When more than forty 



Former Students — 18^4. 145 

years of age he spent a short time in the Academical Department, 
to perfect himself in literary studies and in surveying. In later 
life he was a surveyor and conveyancer. Ceasing to teach, he 
engaged in farming, at liittle York, for many years before his 
death, which occurred June 2, 1861. He was highl}- respected 
and esteemed. 

*RoBERT W. Cliffe. — From Baltimore, and died there in '56. 

James H. Cook, Philadelphia.— \n express and forwarding 
business ; resides in Mount Vernon Stieet. 

*JoHN Wilson Cowell, A.M.. — Born at Point Pleasant, Bucks 
county ; in hotel business all his life ; lived at Doylestown, and 
on the Schuylkill, in Montgomery count}^; held the offices of 
Collector of Internal Revenue for the lYth District of Penns^d- 
vania, '6- ; and of Liquor Inspector, at Philadelphia ; died at 
Mont Clare, Montgomery county, June 26, "78, aged 61 years ; 
interred in Doylestown Cemeter}^ 

*Charles B. Daniel. — From Bath ; merchant and slate dealer 
at Bethlehem ; died Nov. 24, '77. 

*Bronaugh McClair Deringer.— Born in Philadelphia in 
1819 ; son of Henry Deringer, inventor and manufacturer of the 
pistol named from him ; a student, '34-5 ; coal merchant in 
Washington, D. C, '40-7 ; in '48 he bought a large farm near 
New Castle, Del., on which he lived until his death, of typhoid 
fever, in August, 68. 

Calhoun Mason Deringer, Philadelphia. — Born in Philadel- 
phia, Nov. 8, 1824 ; coal dealer in Washington, D. C. in '44-7 ; 
the rest of his life a resident of Philadelphia ; Grand Marshal of 
the Masonic body at the laying of the corner-stone of the Smith- 
sonian Institution, May 1, '47; in '51 and again in '61, Secretary 
of the Board of Guardians of the Poor, Philadelphia ; in '55 Sec- 
retary of the Board of Port Wardens ; Aide to Govs. Bigler and 
Pollock ; was elected Lt. Colonel 1st Regiment, 2d Brigade, Pa. 
Vol., but was not in service ; in '67, Internal Revenue Assessor 
of the 2d District of Pennsjdvania. 

*Lewis M. Dusenbery. — From Easton ; in mercantile life ; in 
1863 was a resident of Mobile, Ala., and died in 1870. 



146 The Men of Lafayette. 

*CoL. Samuel Fowler. — Lawyer and mineraligist ; eldest son 
of the scientist, Dr. Samuel Fowler, of Franklin, Sussex county, 
N. J, ; born at Ogdensburg, in the same county, March 25, 1818; 
after leaving Lafayette, he studied law under Gov. Haines, and 
was admitted to the bar in Feb., '42 ; removed to Port Jervis, N. 
Y., where he resided from '47 to '55 ; b}' his means and influence 
this village was rapidly developed into a thriving town ; he was 
Chairman of the N. Y. Democratic State Committee, and was 
nominated to Congress from the Orange and Sullivan Distiict', 
but defeated by a small majority ; after '55 he devoted himself 
to the development of the mineral resources of Sussex county ; 
sent to the World's Fair at London the zinc boulder of 5,00 
pounds ; invented zinc paint, " the first idea of the manufacture 
of which he derived from observing incrustations on the inside of 
the chimney of his iron furnace, which he scraped off with his 
jack-knife, the first sine-white of the kind ever known." Colonel 
of the 15th N. J. Regiment from Jul}', '62. to March, 63 ; mem- 
ber of the New Jersej" Assembly, in attendance on which while 
unwell — because of a tie — his disease increased, and he died of 
pleuro-pheumonia, Jan. 14, '67, aged 46. 

Augustus Green. — From Trenton, N. J.; a student from 
May, '34. to March, '35. 

H. B., Isaac, and Pearson Harris. — Three brothers, from 
Salem county, N. J. ; students in '34-5. Isaac practiced medi- 
cine as an Eclectic, at Salem and Trenton ; Pearson engaged in 
mechanical business at Millville, N. J.; and all three are stated 
to have removed early to Pennsylvania or further West. 

JosiAH NicHOL Jones, Baltimore^ 3Id. — Born in Baltimore ; 
from Asbur}- College, he entered Lafayette in May, '34, and left 
in Sept., '35 ; engaged in mercantile business and farming, in or 
near Baltimore, until '61 ; then became clerk to Lieut. Colonel 
A. P. Porter, of class of '53 ; and has of late been clerk in the 
office of the Assistant Treasurer of the United States ; of his 
twelve children, eight sons are in prosperous business ; resides at 
50 Calhoun Street. 

W. Jones. — From Philadelphia ; a student one term. 



Former Students — iSj,^. 147 

Walter K. McDouGAii. — From New York city ; a student for 
two years, and for twenty years afterward in mercantile business 
in New York ; further liistor}' not known. 

*JoHN W. RiGHTER, M.D. — From Beaver Meadow, Carbon 
county; died in Salem county (^?;, N. J., about '58. 

* George Washington EocKHiLL.-Born in Philadelphia, March 
.12, 1820 ; he was reared at Pittstown, N. J. ; married in '45 to 
Miss L. Fox, of Salem county, N. J.; farmed at Pittstown until 
'64; then removed to Clinton, N. J., where he died in Sept., '68. 

John Semple, Eadon. — Born in Greenwich township, N. J., 
Jan. 27, 1822 ; a student in 34-5 ; engaged in iron and oil busi- 
ness. 

Samuel Moor Shoemaker, A.M., Baltimore^ 3Id — Born at 
Bayou La Fourche, Louisiana, June 28, 1821 ; a student, '34-6 ; 
in mercantile business, and now Superintendent and Resident 
Manager of the Adams Express Companj^ ; originator of the 
American " Express" S3'stem ; received A.M. from Lafayette in 
'65. [See Appleton's New American Cyclopedia ; s. v. "Express."] 

*HoRATio M. Slack. — Lawyer; from Bucks county ; died in 
Chicago in '55. 

David Miller Stiger, New York City. — Merchant ; born in 
Hunterdon county, N. J., Jan. 1, 1815; a student two years ; in 
mercantile business, except when Clerk of Warren county, '41-6 ; 
resided in Hackettstown five years ; Belviderefivej^ears; Morris- 
town seven years ; Secretary of State Sunday School Association 
for Hudson county, twelve j-ears ; address is 58 Barclay Sti-eet. 

* James H. Trenchard. -Surveyor ; a lineal descendant of George 
Trenchard, surveyor and an early settler of Salem, N. J.; born 
at Fairton, Cumberland county, N. J., May 20, 1811 ; in mercan- 
tile and milling business at Centreville, N. J., '35-'68 ; elected to 
the N. J. legislature from Salem county in '48, on the Whig 
ticket; removed to Bridgeton in "63, and gave his whole attention 
to survej'ing ; City Surveyor, Councilman, and President of the 
original Bridgeton Water Companj'^ ; died Feb. 28, "75. 



148 The Men of Lafayette. 

LesiierTrexler,M.D.-A student one term; from Long Swamp, 
Berks county, where he subsequently resided, acquired property, 
owned an iron furnace, and was its manager until about 1872, 
when he sought a new home in the far west. He graduated at 
the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '40. 

Ebenezer Westcott, Camden, N. J. — Born at Newport, Cum- 
berland county, N. J., Oct. 23, 1814 ; a student one year ; in mer- 
cantile business at Fairton, N. J., '35-6 ; in '64 he retired from 
the business of mail contractor, in which he had engaged exten- 
sively for twenty-five years; six years later he built the Bridge- 
ton and Port Norris Railroad, of which he is now President and 
Superintendent. 

*George W. Wolf. — Prom Easton; graduated at Marshall 
College in 1840. 

*Pranklin a. Worrell. — Brother of the Revs. Worrell, who 
entered in '32 ; " a merchant in Carthage, Illinois ; shot by Mor- 
mons, in '44, while quietly crossing the prairie, near Warsaw, 
Illinois ;" aged 24. 



Of the following, who entered in 1834, no information has been 
obtained : '■ 

Rev. James Brownlee. 
W. Bellis. 

Lewis Bixler. — From Baltimore. 
Charles BRADKiELn. 
William Burns. — From Baltimore. 
Horatio Chambers. 
Wm. D. Clark. — From Delaware. 
W. A. Davidson. — From Philadelphia, 
E. O. Demarest. — From New York. 
C. Evans. 
W. Evans. 

L. F. Hanson. — From Newark, N. J. 
Simon Jones. 

J. A. Little. — From Easton. 
G. McFarland. 

B. Mavhew.— From Millville, N. J, 
T. S. Serrill. — From Darby, Delaware county. 
S. Shimer. 
T. C. Stebbins. — From Savannah, Ga. 



Fanner Slu^rnfs—rSjj. U^'i 

ENTERED FN 1S35. 

Samuel Lytle Addams, Ski2:)pensburg. — Born in East Penns- 
borough, Cumberland county, Jan. 19, 1821; in college '35-9; 
left college because of ill-health, and never entered on profession- 
al life. 

John C^Boyd, M.D., 3tonroe^ Orange Co.^ N. 1\ — Born in 
Green township, Sussex county, N. J., Dec. 2, 1819 ; in college 
from Sept., '35, to March, '36 ; graduated at Jefferson Medical 
College, '41 ; Examining Surgeon to the Board of Enrollment, 
11th Congressional District, N. Y. 

Philip F. Brakeley, A.M., M.D., Belvidere, N. J. — Entered 
college from Warren county, N. J. ; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of the University of Pennsylvania, '42 ; Examining 
Surgeon for pensions ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65 ; 
Secretarj^ of the Warren County Medical Society, and member 
of State Medical Society. 

John Cresswell, A.M., IloUidaysburg, — Lawyer ; entered 
college from Huntingdon county ; member of Legislature and 
Speaker of the Pennsylvania Senate, '59 ; received degree of 
A.M. from Lafa^'ette in '65. 

*Rev. John L. Cummins. — From Orange county, N. Y. ; in 
college one term ; a lawyer until 1850 ; then entered the ministry: 
died at Keokuk, Iowa, Feb. 20, '52, aged 31. 

James Galloway, San Francisco^ Gal. — Lawyer ; from Mer- 
cer, Pa. ; Junior Orator ; left in Senior j-ear ; studied a year at 
Athens, Ohio ; then studied law in Mercer, where his father was 
pastor of the Associate Reformed church ; went to California in 
'50, and has there remained, and filled the office of Judge ; living 
out of the city, his postofflce address is San Francisco, care of 
Hon. James A. Johnson. 

Rev. Matthew Blackburne Grier, D.D., Philadelphia. — 
Editor ; born in Pennsylvania ; leaving college after one year, he 
graduated at Washington College, Pennsylvania, '38 ; and at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '41 ; ordained at Ellicotts Mills, 
Md., Nov., '41 ; Wilmington, N, C, '52 ; preached in Gloucester 
City, N. J., '67-9 ; received D.D. from Lafayette in '66 ; editor 
of The Presbyterian since 61. 



150 TJie Men of Lafayette, 

*Samuel L. Grier, M.D. — Brother of the preceding- ;■ died at 
Natchez, Miss., July 30, 1864, aged 41. 

Rev. Smith F. Grier, — New Cumberland, W. Va. — From 
Emmittsburg, Md. ; concluded his college coarse and graduated 
at Jefferson College, '39 ; pastor of Valley church, Pa. ; at New 
Cumberland, W. Va., since Dec, '52. • 

A. Alexander Howell, A.M., M.I),, AUentown, N. J. — Born 
near Trenton, N. J., May 10, 1818; entered college in '35, and 
left in Senior year, '39 ; graduated at Jeflerson Medical College, 
'41 ; in constant medical practice, and has filled the offices of As- 
sessor, School Superintendent, Postmaster, and President of a 
Life Insurance Company ; and is an elder in the church ; received 
A.M. in '65 from Lafayette. [See Atkinson's "Physicians and 
Surgeons of the United States."] 

Thomas R. Hull, A.M., M.D., Milton.— In college from Feb., 
'85, to Sept., '85 ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '38 ; 
permanent member of Medical Societ}^ of Pennsylvania ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in "66. 

John McKibbin. — He graduated at the University of Penn- 
sjdvania in '41. 

*Rev. Oscar Park, A.M. — From Jerseytown, Montour coun- 
ty ; graduated at Marietta College, Ohio, '43; graduated at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '46 ; ordained evangelist by 
Presbj'tery of Northumberland, June, '46 ; preached at Wau- 
kesha, Wis., '56 ; for. a time Professor in Carroll College, Wis. ; 
and pastor at Chatsworth, HI., until his death, Jan. 25, 'H, aged 
54. 

David W, Reed, M.D. — From White Deer township, Lycom- 
ing count}''. 

James M. Robeson, A.M., Belvidere, N. J".— Lawyer and 
Judge ; born near Belvidere, Nov. 1, 1819 ; in college from July, 
'35, to A pril, '3Y ; admitted to the bar of N. J., Jan., '48 ; Pros- 
ecutor of the Pleas of Warren county, five years ; Counsellor, Feb., 
'60 ; District Attorney, '60 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66; 
in "12 was appointed by the Legislature Law Judge for the conn- 



ty, but resigiied after two years, ai 
[^Biographical Annals of New Jersey.] 



Former St?idc7tts — iSjj, iSI 

and resumed legal practice. 



Rev. Henry S. Robenbough, A.M,, Eagleville^ M'ontgomcry 
Co.- — He has been pastor of the Norriton and Providence churches 
for nearly forty years ; received A.M, from Lafayette in '59. 
« 

Alexander M. Scudder, A.M.^From Princeton, N. J. ; in 

college a short time in '35 ; graduated at Princeton in '39 ; studied 
theology a year ; and has since taught in Georgia, principally at 
Athens. 

TfioMAS H. Shaper, Bahicay^ N^ J. — Lawyer ; from Newton, 
N. J. ; in college one term ; graduated at Princeton in '40 ; ad" 
mitted to the bar of New Jersey, Sept, '43. 

* Charles B. Shaw. — T;awyer ; died at Stroudsburg in '49. 

Thomas Stilwell, M.D., Fremont, Ohio. — Born in Buffalo 
Valley, Union count}^, Pa. ; in college one year, '35-6 ; aftef 
graduating at Jefferson Medical College, '39, lie located in Lower 
Sandusky (now^ Fremont), where he is still engaged in the prac- 
tice of medicine ; member of the Ohio Medical Society. 

Rev. William C. Sturgeon, Millville, Ohio — In college from 
June, '36, to March, '37 ; graduated at College of New Jersey,'41: 
rector Protestant Episcopal church, and has resided some years 
past at Millville. 

Thomas K. Aimies. — From Dai-by, Delaware county ; a stud- 
ent one .year, '35-6 ; was in paper trade in Philadelphia until '70. 

*James Magee Blackwell. — From Danville, Pa. ; a student 
one year ; he lived in Elizabeth, N. J., until his decease ; his 
widow and children still make that place their home. 

*William J. Browne. — Lawyer; fromEaston; a student one 
year ; admitted to Noi'thampton county bar, Aug. 18, '40 ; estab- 
lished the Easton Penny Dispatch ; died in Easton in '59. 

Milton Cooper, A.M., Coopei'sburg, Lehigh Co. — Banker ; a 
student from Jan. to April, '35 ; for man 3^ j^ears wholesale mer- 
chant in Philadelphia ; since '66, banker at Coopersburg. 



152 ,Thc Men of Lafayette, 

Delozier Davidson, — From Washington, D. C. ; is said to 
have entered the regular service as a Lieutenant. 

Isaac Davidson. — Brother of the preceding. 

*Henry Ogden Fowler. — Lawyer; born at Franklin, Sussex 
county, N. J., in 1822 ; a student in '35 ; studied law in Ham- 
burg, N, J., under Gov. Haines, and was admitted to the New 
Jersey bar, Sept., 43, but was unable to appl^' himself closely to 
his profession on account of impaired health ; died Nov. 1, '75, 
of tj^jihoid pneumonia, aged 54. 

Charles German, M.D., Lehighton^ Carbon Go. — From Berks 
county ; a student from Jan., '35, to Sept., '36. 

John Green, 3Iauch Chunk. — Brother of Hon. Henry Green, 
of '46 ; and son of Enoch Green, a Trustee ; born at. Greenwich, 
Warren count}', N. J. ; a student in '35-6 ; engaged in milling, 
'50-'60 ; chief clerk in Lehigh Yalley general freight office since 
Oct., '64. 

''Joseph B. Green. —From Greenwich, Warren county, N. J.; 
died early. 

Fergus A. Hathorn. — From Newton, N. J. ; a student one 
term; engaged in mercantile business in Minnesota; and last 
residence known was Winona. 

*Daniel p. Hill. — Died at Harmony, N. J., Jan. 13; '45, aged 
31 ; interred in theburial ground of the First Presbyterian church, 
Easton. 

*Rev. Theodore C. L. Hoffeditz, A.M. — Son of Dr. HofFe- 
ditz ; born near Nazareth ; graduated at Marshall College, 1840; 
in the ministry of the German Reformed Church ; pastor in 
Northampton county ; died at Nazareth, in '59. 

John S. Howell, Newton^ N. J. — A student from Jan., 1835, 
to April, '35 ; farmer. 

Andrew B. Laurie. — Son of Rev. James Laurie, D. D., who 
in 1841 became pastor of the F Street Church, in Washington. 

William S. Long, Durham, Bucks Co. — Born in Durham 
township, Bucks county ; in college occasional terms, between 



Former Students — iSjS- ^^^ 

Nov., '35, to Dec, '38 ; a, farmer, and an elder in the Presby- 
terian Church. 

David C. McCammon. — In mercantile business in Philadelphia 
until his retirement in 18'i2, because of entire failure in health; 
now at Harrisburg. 

*WiLLiAM J. McCammon. — In mercantile business in Philadel- 
phia until his death, March 10, 1871. 

La Rue Metzger, Harrisburg Born at Middletown, April 

24, 1817; in special course; in naercantile business, '40-'50 ; 
chief clerk in the School Department ; Treasurer of Dauphin 
county, '53- ; clerk in the Mechanics' Bank, Harrisburg, and 
since '75, City Comptroller. 

Charles A. Morford, Neio York CtY^/.— Banker ; from New- 
ton, N. J. ; a student one term ; address, 137 Broadway. 

* Thomas R. Pomp. — Born in Easton ; a student in 1835-6 ; for 
many years a druggist in Easton, where he died from injuries 
received in a fall at the Lehigh Valley depot, Aug. 14, '62, aged 
44. 

James Rogers.^ — From Hanover, Dauphin county; a student 
one year. 

D. Traphagen Stiger, New Germanton^ N. J. — From Warren 
county, N. J. ; farmer. 

* Charles Weirman. — Lawyer ; from Bucks county ; a student 
two years ; admitted to the bar at Easton, April 26, 1842 ; sub- 
sequently resided in Washington, D. C, where he died about the 
year 1871. 



Of the following, who entered in 1835, no information has been 
obtained : 

James T. Davidson. 

John McFarland. — From Northampton county. 

Joseph McLelland. 

John Miller. — From Ireland. 

Lansing Owen. — From New York. 

Thomas R. Simpson. — From Chester county. 



154 Tlie Men of Lafayette. 

ENTERED IN 1836. 

John M. App, Austin, 3Io. — Born in Selin's Grove, Pa. ; for 
twenty years a merchant ; since the war, an enterprising former, 
on 300 acres in Missouri. 

Benjamin Markley Boyer, A.M., Noi^-istown. — Lawyer; on 
leaving Lafaj-ette he entered Marshall College, and graduated at 
University of Pennsjdvania in '41 ; member of Congress, 'Go-9 ; 
received A.M. from Lafa^^ette in '66. 

John M. Crawford, i\^eio Castle. — Iron manufacturer; from 
Norristown ; in college one year, '36-7. 

Francis Markoe Cummins, A.M., Goshen, N. F.— In college 
one term ; Captain of Company A in the 10th U. S. Infantry in 
the Mexican war ; Captain in 1st Iowa Regiment ; Colonel of the 
124th New York Regiment; received A.M. from Lafayette in 
1866. 

*James H. Cunningham, M.D. — From New London, Chester 
county ; in college one year; graduated at College of New Jer- 
sey, '38, and in medicine at the University of Maryland ; Bank 
Cashier at Oxford, where he died in '70, 

*Charles H. Dickenshied, M.D. — Born in Lehigh county ; 
in college from '36 to '38 ; graduated at Medical Department of 
the University of Penns^dvania in '41 ; practiced at Spinners- 
towai, where he died, Dec. 5, '50. Son in class of '71. 

John S. Dugqan. — From Ireland ; in college one year. 

Henry Hall Green, 3Iora, New Mexico. — Son of Col. Green 
of the U. S. Army; was born at Fort Winnebago; in college, 
'36-9 ; was at West Point several years ; served as Lieutenant 
through the Mexican war; went to New Mexico in '50, and is 
there in mercantile business. 

* John W. Guirey. — From Philadelphia ; in college one term ; 
is reported to have been a printer in Philadelphia, and to have 
died in Juniata county, in Jan., '71. 

Philip Hillbish, Seliri's Grove, Snyder Go. — Born at Free- 
burg, Snyder county ; in college one j^ear ; engaged in mercantile 



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business many years at McKee's Half Falls, and since "75 at 
Selin's Grove. 

*JoiiN McKelway. — Lawyer ; from Trenton, N. J. ; admitted 
to the bar of New Jersey in Feb. '44 ; was Consul in Cuiracoa in 
'51 ; returned in poor health, and died in the fall of '52. 

*WiLLiAM F. M. Magraw. — From 'West Nottingham, Cecil 
county, Md. ; in college one year ; held various government 
offices in Maryland ; died in Baltimore, Jan., '65. 

William H. Mark, M.D., Lewishurg. — From Milton ; in col- 
lege one 3^ear ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, 1840 ; has 
retired from practice. 

*Rev. John Arndt Reiley, A.M. — In preparatorj' department 
and college, '36 to '41 ; accompanied President Junkin to Miami 
University, and there graduated in '42 ; studied at Princeton 
Theological Seminar}^ two years ; licensed May 16, '44 ; preached 
at Port Carbon ; ordained at Blairstown and Knowlton, N. J., 
Nov. 18, '45 ; after a pastorate of twenty-one years, he removed 
in '66 to East Feliciana Parish, La., where he had a plantation, 
and performed regular missionary service until his death, of 
yellow fever, Sept. 30, '78, aged 61. 

*William T. Risler. — Lawyer; from Wilkes-Barre ; in col- 
lege a year ; admitted to Northampton county bar, Nov. 20, '38, 
and to Bucks county bar, Dec. 9, '39 ; died in Philadelphia, 
Oct., '60. 

George Carson. — From Baltimore, Md. ; no information re- 
ceived. 

* William Chauvenet, LL.D. — Born at Milford, Pike county. 
May 24, 1819 ; a student in summer term of '36 ; graduated with 
honor at Yale, '40 ; Professor of Mathematics, XJ. S. Navy, '41 ; 
Professor of Astronomy at U. S. Naval Academy, Annapolis ; 
Chancellor of Washington University ; died at St. Paul, Minn., 
Dec. 13, 'TO. Distinguished as a mathematician, astronomer, and 
author. 

George Crawford, New Cadle^ Lawrence Go. — From Norris- 
town ; now an iron manufacturer. 



156 The Mejt of Lafayette. 

*Patrick Daly. — From New York city ; a vStiident one year ; 
became a successful merchant in Easton ; died in August, 1877. 

George W. Dodder, Iowa City., Iowa, — From Sussex county, 
N. J. ; early removed to Iowa, where he has been a Justice, and 
recently Sheriff. 

Henry A. Eyer, Selin's Grove. — A student one term ; has al- 
ways resided at Selin's Grove. 

*Philip Gossler. — Lawyer and Railroad contractor; born at 
Columbia, Pa., Nov. 23, 1815 ; a student in '36-8 ; he studied law, 
and practiced at Columbia for several j^ears, but retired on account 
of ill health; he subsequently prospered in business as a railroad 
contractor, and amassed a fine property ; in search of health, he 
spent the last ten years of his life in travel in the South and in 
West Indies : he died Feb. 2, '73, at St. George's, Del., and was 
interred at his native place. 

William Hill. — From Flemington, N.J. ; a student two years. 

David Hollyock. — From England ; no information received. 

* William Jenkins, — Son of Col. Harris Jenkins, of Wyo- 
ming ; born Feb. 11, 1814, in the first frame house erected in the 
Wj^oming Vallej', built by his grandfather, Col. John Jenkins, 
the guide to Gen. Sullivan after the Wyoming Massacre ; a stud- 
ent in '36-8 ; engaged in mercantile and mining life ; died at 
Pittston, Oct. 14, '39; buried at West Pittston, near the site of 
Fort Jenkins. A young man of remarkable energy and promise. 

11. M. Strode. — From Frederick, Md. ; a student two years ; 
presumed to be deceased. 

Jacob "Van Reed, Sinking Bpi'ing^ Berks Go. — A student one 
year, '36-7 ; farmer. 

Milton E. Worrell, Monmouth^ III. — Brother of the Revs. 
Worrell, who entered in '32 ; he has spent his life as a machinist 
in Quincy, 111., and recently removed to Monmouth. 

James Youmans. — From Stillwater, Sussex county, N. J. ; 
is said to have studied medicine, and to have practiced in Daven- 
port, Iowa. 



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'J' 



Wjlliam S, Young, AUentoivn, — Merchant ; born in Quaker- 
town ; a stndent one year ; published a newspaper in AUentown. 
'48- '53 ; elder in Presbyterian church, and Superintendent of 
Sabbath schooL 

ENTERED IN 1S37. 

*George Conrad Bucher, A.M. — From Alexandria, Hunting- 
don county, Pa, He pursued the Irregular Scientific Course for 
about two years. He was a lawyer, and resided at Alexandria. 
On Feb. 3, 1868, white in a stage approaching Petersburg, the 
horses took fright, and he was thrown from the vehicle and in- 
stantly killed. Capt. W. L. Neff, of class of '54, was with him 
at the time. He left a wife and ten children. Received A.M. 
from Lafayette. 

*Rev. Louis L. Conrad. — A native of Prussia; he came to 
Lancaster county ; was in college, '37-'40 ; graduated at Hamp- 
den Sidney College in '43 ; at Western Theological Seminary in 
'46 ; was pastor in Allegheny county, until his death at Manches- 
ter, near Pittsburg, in '68. 

*Hewson Cox Younger brother of William S. Cox, class of 

'34, and a son of Dr. Cox, a Surgeon in the United States Navy, 
who was for a time a resident of Easton ; died in middle life, 
while acting as supercargo in the South American trade. 

John Kennedy Ewing, Uniontown. — Lawyer ; entered college 
from Fayette county, and remained two years ; afterward at Jef- 
ferson College ; is Bank President, Judge, and Director of the 
Western Theological Seminary. His son was in the class of "78. 

Benjamin F. Junkin, A.M. — New Bloomfield. — Lawyer ; born 
in Cumberland county, Nov. 12, 1822 ; studied law at Carlisle, 
and admitted to the bar in '44 ; District Attorney of Perry coun- 
ty, three years, '50-3 ; Member of XXXVIth Congress, '59-'61 ; 
Presiding Judge of the 41st District ; received A.M. from Lafay- 
ette in '65. 

John Oliphant, OUphant Furnace^ Fayette Go. — Born near 
Connellsville, Fayette count}-, 1822; entered college, Nov. '36, 
and left in Sophomore year, March, '39 ; graduated at Jefferson 
College in '41, and has ever since been a manufacturer of iron. 



158 The Men of Lafayette, 

Israel Warren Royer, M.D,, Trapi^e^ Montgomery Co.— In 
college three years ; graduated at College of New Jersey in 1841, 
at Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '45 ; 
TJ. S. Examining Surwon. 

Levi Streeper, A.M., Barren Hill, Montgomer-y Go. — Born in 
Whitemarsh township, Montgomery Co., Jan. 28, 1816 ; in college, 
'3*r-'41 ; a member of class of '42 until Senior year; '42-6 en- 
gaged in teaching and reading law ; in mercantile business, '46-'67 ; 
since '67, in marble trade at Marble Hall ; P. O. address as above ; 
has been Justice of the Peace, and for twenty-four years a school 
director. 

Henry Yan Reed, A.M., Reading. — Lawyer ; born in Berks 
county, August 31, 1821 ; in college three years; admitted to the 
bar at Reading, April 5, '44 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in 
'66 ; additional Law Judge of 23d District since '68 ; member of 
the Pennsylvania Constitutional Convention from 8th District in 
'72 ; his son graduated in '74. [Biographical Encyclopedia of 
Eminent Pennsylvanians.] 

Thomas Hubley Walker, Pottsville. — Lawyer ; born in Lan- 
caster county ; in college, '37-8 ; entered Pennsylvania College; 
engaged as civil engineer in the service of the State ; studied law 
in Pottsville, and was there admitted to the bar, Dec, '48 ; served 
twice as Presidential Elector ; District Attorney, '56-9, and '67- 
'70 ; since '71, additional Law Judge of the 21st Judicial District. 

Charles R. Webster, Isthmus of Panama. — Graduated at the 
College of New Jersey in 1841; Captain in Mexican war; re- 
ceived gold medal for gallantry at Chepultepec ; Consul at Che- 
pultepec, '50-'60 ; now merchant. 

John Harkness Adams. — Went to Kentucky in 1839. 

Sharp Baxter, Vernon, Sussex Co., N. J. — From Deckertown, 
N. J. ; farmer. 

George W. Beach. — From Beach Haven, Luzerne county ; 
engaged in general business ; in the late war he was Captain and 
Assistant Quartermaster. 



Former Students — iSj";, 159 

Rev. Charles Becker, A.M., Gaiasauqua. — From LebigU 
township, Northampton county ; graduated at Marshall College 
in H8 ; in the ministry of the German Reformed church. 

Christian L, Becker, Blairstoivn^ loiva — From Lehigh town- 
ship, Northampton county; farmer. 

Thomas McCartney. — From Blairsville, Indiana county ; a 
brother of Prof. McCartney ; engaged in manufacturing furniture. 

James C. (or W.) McCormick.— From Baltimore, Md. ; no in- 
formation received. 

*Albert Watson Markley Born in Leacock, Lancaster 

county, Oct. 25, 1825, and died at Camden, N. J., Sept. 25, '75. 
His early life was passed in Columbia ; in '46 he became a clerk 
at Camden, N. J. ; from '48 to '54, clerk in the State Bank ; iu 
'54, assignee of the large estate of W. W. Fleming, at Atsion ; 
then became President of the Farmers and Mechanics Bank ; his 
great tact in business was shown in his directorship of the affairs 
of the Camden and Amboy Railroad, and the Camden and Phil- 
adelphia Ferry Company. [Biographical Annals of New Jersey.] 

* Simon Miller, — Died at Allentown about 1845. 

Hugh Moore, Oxford^ Chester Go. — From Chester county ; a 
student two j^ears, 1837-9 ; a farmer. 

*John T. Simmons. — Born in New Castle county, Del., and al- 
ways resided near Christiana, engaged in farming ; he early eman- 
cipated his slaves, and was at one time the Republican nominee 
for the Legislature. By a stroke of paralysis, he was rendered 
entirely helpless, and so jcontinued for six years, until his death, 
Feb. 14, '71, aged 51. 

Devault Weber, Norristown. — Son of George Weber, of Le- 
high township, a Trustee of Lafayette ; a miller, and now retired 
from business. 

Rev. George Weber, Jr., Blairstoion, Iowa. — In the ministry 
of the German Reformed church ; a brother of the preceding ; 
for some years settled at Freeport, 111, 

James S.Young, A.M., Philadelj^hia. — Born near Quakertown ; 
wholesale dry goods merchant in extensive business in Philadel- 
phia ; resides in Germantown ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65. 



160 The Men of Lafayette, 

ENTERED IN 183S. 

Isaac N. Badeau, Brooklyn,, N. Y. — From Mahopac Falls, 
Putnam county, N, Y. ; in college one year, '38-9; Assistant 
City Tax Collector of Brooklyn, '64-5. Address, 58 Sands St. 

John S. Clendenin, — From Chester county. 

*Ebenezer V. Dickey, M.D. --From Chester county ; graduated 
at Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '44 ; 
President of Octorara Bank; died at Oxford, July, '58. 

Thomas Knight Finletter, LL.D., Philadelphia, — Lawyer 
and Judge ; from Philadelphia ; graduated at University of Penn- 
s^'lvania, '43 ; studied law under Judge William A. Porter, class 
of '39 ; admitted to Philadelphia bar, '46 ; while a member of the 
Pennsylvania Legislature, '49-'51, he introduced a bill, known as 
the Ten-Hours Bill, for regulating the hours of labor in factories 
and the age at which children should be admitted as operatives. 
This important measure, under his diligent advocacy, became a 
law. From '60 to '65 he was Assistant City Solicitor; Judge of 
the Court of Common Pleas, '70- ; received LL.D. from Jeffer- 
son College of Philadelphia. [Biographical Encyclopedia of 
Eminent Pennsylvanians.] 

*Henry M. Gray, M.D. — Son of Rev. John Gray, of Seneca 
county, N. Y.; inclassof '42 ; left in Junior year, Jan. ,'41 ;, studied 
medicine, went to California in '49 ; became prominent in San 
Francisco, and died there, Sept. 23, '63 ; he was never married ; 
his father died there a year previous. 

*Irwin L. Kennedy, M.D. — From Bucks county ; in college 
one year, '38-9 ; died July 6, '52, aged 31. 

Thomas B. Kennedy, A.M., Chamber shurg. — Lawyer ; born in 
Warren county, N. J., Aug., 1827 ; graduated at Marshall College 
with honor in '44; admitted to Franklin county bar, '48; Dis- 
trict Attorney ; Trustee of Wilson College ; Vice President of 
the Cumberland Valley Railroad. [Biographical Encyclopedia 
of Eminent Pennsylvanians.] 

George Junkin, A.M., PhiladeljjMa. — Lawyer ; thii'd son of 
President Junkin ; born near Milton ; in the middle of his Jun- 
ior j-ear, March, '41, he accompanied his father to Miami Univer- 



Former Students — i8j8, 161 

sity, and there graduated in '42 ; studied law in the office of Hon. 
James M. Porter, Easton, Dec, '44, to Jan., '41, and then with 
Samuel H, Perkins, Esq., Philadelphia, until his admission tothe 
bar on his 21st birthday. Match 18, '48. He is a Director of the 
Princeton Theological Seminary ; one of the committee to pre- 
pare the Hymnal of the Presbyterian church ; and as a represent- 
ative at the Pan-Prcsbyterian Council, Edinburg, '77, was the 
only layman complimented with the presidency of the day. 

James G. Junkin, M. D., Wyandot, Ohio. — Entered college 
from Clarion county. Pa. ; pioneer agent of the American Bible 
Society in Mexico, '48-9 ; Missionary to the Creeks, at Tallahas- 
see, '50-; Assistant Surgeon 5th Ohio Infantry ; since '65 prac- 
ticing in Wyandot. 

Jonathan Roberts Lowrie, Warriorln Mark, Huntingdon Co. 
— Lawyer; entered college from New York; graduated at Jeffer- 
son College in '42 ; now a manufacturer of iron. 

Henry Race, A.M., M.D., Fittstoum, N. J. — Born in Kingwood, 
now Franklin township, Hunterdon county, N. J., Februar}'^ 23, 
1814; in college, '38-'40 ; graduated at the Medical Department 
of the University of Pennsylvania in '43, since which time he has 
practiced medicine at Pittstown, excepting two 3'ears, '49-'51, 
spent in California. He has been a life-long student, a man of 
excellent literary and scientific attainments, and received the de- 
gree of A.M. from Lafayette, in '71. He is a ruling elder in 
Bethlehem Presbyterian church. 

George W. Reynolds, Clearjield. — From Shippensburg ; a 
member of the class of 1842 ; in college, '38-9 ; in lumber busi- 
ness. 

John H. Shultz, New York City. — From New York city; in 
college one year, 1838-9 ; publisher of a Railroad Journal, No. 9 
Spruce Street. 

Jehiel G. Shipman, A.M., Belvidere, N. J. — Lawyer ; born at 
Hope, N. J., in 1820. " His family is of Norman descent, granted 
by Henry III, in 1258, a coat of arms bearing the motto, Non 
sibi sed orbi. On the resignation of President Junkin, he went to 
Union College and graduated in '42 ; studied law in the office of 



162 The Men of Lafayette. 

William C. Morris, at Belvidere, and was admitted to the bar in 
'44 ; counsellor, Jan., '48 ; he practices in all the Courts of the 
State, and of tlie United States, and possesses to a high degree 
the faculty of logical constructiveness by which he unfolds with 
ease the intricacies of a case from the simple developments of a 
trial as it proceeds ; he was for many ^-ears a member of the Re- 
publican State Committee, but has never held office; since '73, 
his son, George M., has been his law partner; received A.M. ad 
eundem in '66." [Biographical Annals of New Jersey.] 

*Matthew a. Stanley. — Lawyer ; from Ross county, Ohio ; 
a member of the class of '43 ; of great promise in his profession; 
practiced in Chester and Delaware counties, and died near West 
Chester, Pa., June 28, '53. 

Rev< Peter Rulison Vanatta, A.M., Lafayette, Ind — Born in 
N. J. ; from Hackettstown ; in college until end of Junior j^ear, 
1839; graduated at College of New Jersey, '40 ; entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary and graduated in '41 ; licensed April 27, '42 ; 
dismissed to Presbytery of New Lisbon, Oct. 18, '43; preached 
in Oliio and other parts of the West; nowagentof the American 
Bible Societ}^ 

*WilliamE.Barnes, A.M.,M.D.— Bornin Wilkes-Barre, 1819 ; 
educated in Easton ; a student one 3'ear ; graduated at the Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '43 ; practiced 
in Bath ; from '66 to '74, a druggist in Allentown, where he was 
found dead in his bed on the morning of Oct. 31, '74. A genial. 
Christian gentleman. 

John A. Beaumont, New Hope. — Parmer ; from Brownsburgj 
Bucks county ; a student from June, 1838, to April '39. 

*WiLLiAM M. Beaumont. — Lawyer ; from Brownsburg, Bucks 
county ; admitted to the bar, Aug. 16, 1842 ; died early. 

Cyrus Cook, Onvell, Bradford Co. — Farmer ; Justice of the 
Peace ; brother of Rev. Darwin Cook, of '43. 

James A. Crawford, A^ett; Castle. — Iron manufacturer; entered 
college from Norristown. 



Former Students — i8j8, 1G3 

*CoNSTANTiNE DusENBERY. — Froiu Eastoii ; a printer ; for a 
time at New Castle, Del. ; but of late yearsat Washington, D.O., 
where he died in the autumn of 1877. 

*George Bidleman Elder. — Son of Nathaniel N.Elder; born 
April 20, 1826 ; died in Easton, while a student, Dee. 11, '38. 

Henry Wynkoop Gwinner, FhiladelpJim. — Born in Philadel- 
phia, Jan. 11, 1824 ; a student in '38-9 ; clerked near Ilazleton ; 
then entered the office of the Neiotoivn Journal ; and was for 
eighteen years engaged in printing, chiefly in the office of the 
Gharleaton Daily Courier, Charleston, S. C; in '58 he entered 
the Pennsylvania Railroad office, became General Ticket Agentin 
'64, and since '72 Auditor of passenger receipts ; resides at 208 
North 33d Street. 

Theodore Hixson, Easton. — Born in Springtown, N. J.; a 
student one year ; in military service in 51st Pennsylvania Regi- 
ment ; and now in the service of the Lehigh Valley Railroad. 

*Theodore S. Larnard. — From Athens, Bradford county; died 
early. 

*James McLean. — Born at Summit Hill, now in Carbon coun- 
ty ; a student one year ; in 1846 engaged in coal operations at 
Summit Hill, and there continued until his death. 

William Maxwell, Easton. — Born in Warren county, N. J. ; 
a student from Jan., '38, to Sept., '39 ; for some j^ears connected 
with the Easton Whig ; since '49 in the book trade in Easton. 

Nathan L. Price. — Son of Dr. Price, of Sunbury ; he studied 
medicine under his father's preceptorship, and attended lectures 
in the University of Pennsylvania, '41-2. 

*J. Riley. — From vicinity of Hackettstown, N. J. ; a student 
one term ; died early, at his home. 

Rev. J. E. Rue, Hightstoivn, JSf. J. — A student from Jan. to 
Jul}^, '38 ; entered the Baptist ministr^^ ; financial agent for the 
Peddie Institute at Hightstown. 

Jacob Miller Stiger, Plainfield, N. J. — From Warren coun- 
ty, N. J. ; farmer ; for a time a merchant ; now dealer in real estate. 



164 The Men of Lafayette. 

*WiLLiAM Stuart. — Merchant ; from Warren county, N. J.; 
a student in '38-9 ; died in Belvidere, N. J., Feb. 23, '49, aged 26. 

*D. B. Urmston, — From Middlesex count}^, N. J. A monu- 
ment in the burial ground of the Presbyterian church at Bound 
Brook, N. J., bears the inscription : " Daniel Bush, son of Daniel 
and Deborah Urmston ; died at Lafayette College, Feb. 9, 1889, 
aged 18 years, 7 months. A beloved youth, cut off in the morn- 
ing of his da3^s, while preparing for the mimstr3^" 

*Daniel H. Vail. — ^From Stillwater, Sussex county, N. J., 
where he resided most of his life ; a student one year ; born March 
23, 1823 ; died at Newton, Nov. 13, '56 ; merchant, and Sheriff of 
the county. 

Joseph A. Van Horn, Yardleyville. — From Bucks county ; a 
student one term : a farmer. 



Of the following, who entered in 1838, no information has been 
obtained : 

W. Davidson, 

H. E. DOWNES. — From New Castle, Del. 

Jacob Keil. — From Bucks county. 

Daniel McLean. — From Northampton county. 

N. K. Sexton.— From Paterson, N. J. 

Washington B. Woodward.— From Chester county. 

ENTERED IN 1839. 

Rev. Peter Anstadt, A.M., York. — Lutheran ; born on the 
Rhine, in New Bavaria; entered college fromMuncy ; graduated 
at Pennsylvania College, 1844 ; editor and publisher of several 
newspapers of his church, and now of the Teachers'' Journal. 

Hiram Percival App. — Selin''s Grove., Snyder Co. — Born at 
Selin's Grove ; entered preparatory department, and left at the 
end of his Sophomore year, 1842 ; since '51 has farmed, and is a 
member of the Board of Trustees of the Missionary Institute of 
the Lutheran church. 

♦Isaac App. — Born at Selin's Grove ; entered preparatory de- 
partment, and left college in Sophomore year ; taught a few terms, 
and then farmed ; married Miss Mary Hultsman, at Berrj^sburg, 
in '48 ; and died at Selin's Grove in '72. 



Former Students — iS^g, 165 

James Austin, A.B., M.J),^ Bxmihurg^ lovm, — Born at Carmel, 
N. Y., March 10, 1820 ; in college from '39 to '41 ; graduated in 
medicine at New Haven, Conn,, '45 ; phj^sician and druggist; 
Postmaster, '64-7. 

*David Beaver. — Born in Chester county ; entered Sopho- 
more class ; died at college just before graduation, June 9, 1841, 
aged 24. A monument was erected to his memory by the Frank- 
lin Literary Society-, in the plot belonging to the Society, in the 
burial ground attached to the First Presbyteiian church, Easton, 

Robert Bethell Browne, A.M., M.V>.^Jeanesi-ille^ Luzerne Co. 
— Born in Easton, June 19, 1824 ; in college two years; gradu- 
ated with distinction at Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in '46 ; practiced in Asbury, N. J., until '62 ; Sur- 
geon of the 31st N.J. Regiment, '62-3 ; Medical Officer at Wash- 
ington, D. C, '63-4 ; was commissioned Assistant Surgeon U. S. 
Volunteers, July 5, '64 ; brevetted Major, March 13, '65, for 
faithful and meritorious services ; brevetted Lieut. Colonel, Oct. 
25, '66, " for meritorious services rendered at Galveston, Texas, 
during the prevalence of the cholera ; was honorably discharged 
at his own request, Nov. 1, '66, since which time he has been in 
continuous practice at Jeanesville. Received A.M. from Lafay- 
ette in '65. 

George W. Caldwell, Glen Hope, Clearfield Co, — From 
Northumberland county; in the practice of medicine. 

T. Stokes Dickinson. — Reported to have been a resident of 
New York cit}', and engaged in mercantile business. 

*Rev. David William Eakins, A.M. — Born in Philadelphia, 
April 6, 1814 ; in preparatory department and Freshman class ; 
graduated at College of New Jersey in '44 ; graduated at Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, '47 ; licensed by the Presbyter}^ of 
Philadelphia, April 9, '48, and ordained by the same as an Evan- 
gelist ; Foreign Missionary to the Creek Indians, '48-'54 ; after 
preaching and teaching in Texas until '63, he became Chaplain of 
the N. J. State Prison ; in '65-9, was a home missionary in Cali- 
fornia ; in '70 preached at Arnot, Pa. ; from '71, he was Army 
Chaplain at Fort Union, New Mexico ; and while visiting his 



166 The Men of Lafayette. 

brother, William H. Eakins, in Philadelphia, died suddenly, 
March 5, 'tG. 

*James Fox. — Lawyer ; from Hummellstown, Dauphin county; 
in Scientific course; admitted to Dauphin county bar, Aug. 19, 
'44 ; a lawyer of remarkable promise ; died about '55. 

*JoHN F. Hunter, Jr. — From Hackettstown, Warren county, 
N. J. ; merchant; died at Owensboro, Ky., Feb. 2, '58. 

*Rev. William Hunter, — From Chester county ; in class of 
'42 ; early became pastor at Clinton, Allegheny county, in which 
position he remained until his death, Oct. 5, 1870, aged 56. 

Jacob Knabb, A.M., Reading. — Born in Union township, Berks 
county, Aug. 21, 1817 ; in college a year; publisher of {X\q Read- 
ing Gazette., '40-3 ; of the Berks and Schuylkill Journal from 
Jan. 1, '45 — ; Reading Times and Dispatch,''QS-9 ; received A.M. 
from Lafayette in '65 ; Postmaster under President Lincoln ; 
Presidential Elector in '76. [Biographical Encyclopedia of 
Eminent Pennsylvanians.] 

*Rev. Joseph McMurray. — Born in County Down, L-eland ; 
in college, '39-'40 ; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 
in '43, and at the Princeton Theological Seminary in '46 ; or- 
dained at Mount Freedom, N. J., Jan. 6, '46 ; pastor at Bensalem 
and Newportsville, Pa., '57 ; preached at Gloucester City, N. J., 
'60-6; resided at Gloucester Citj^, where he died, June 12, '73, 
aged 57. 

*Andrew Porter, M.D. — Son of Gov. David R. Porter ; born 
in Huntingdon in 1822; in college, '39-'40 ; graduated at Medi- 
cal Department of the University of Pennsjdvania in '46 ; he 
resided in Harrisburg, and died while at Cape May, N. J., in Au- 
gust, '59. 

Leonard Pratt, M.D., Wheaton, III. — Born at Le Raysville, 
Bradford count^^. Pa., Dec. 26, 1819 ; in college a year; M.D. at 
Homoeopathic Medical College in '52 ; has been Treasurer, Sec- 
retary and President of the Illinois State Medical Association ; 
in '69, Professor of Clinical Medicine and Surgery in Hahneman 
Medical College, Chicago ; and in '70, Professor of Special Pa- 
thology and Diagnosis; resigned after seven years of service; 
and is now Emeritus Professor in the latter chair. 



Former Studcnis — i8jg, 167 

*Ei\iMETT QuiN.— Lawj^er and Examiner of Patents; born in 
Hunterdon county, N. J.; in "Academical class ;" studied law 
with E. T. McDowell, Esq , at Doylestown, Pa., and was admitted 
to the bar of Bucks county, Dec. 14, '41; for many years he held 
official position in the U. S. Patent Office, Washington, D. C, 
where he died about '70. 

*IsAAC Quix. — Bora in Alexandria, Hunterdon county, N. J., 
in 1822; in English studies one term; in business with his broth- 
er, Robert, in Fayette county, Tennessee, from '48 until his de- 
cease, Sept. 13, '71. 

Robert Quin, Colliersville, Shelby Co., Tenn. — Born in Al- 
exandria, N. J., June 30, 1824 ; in English studies one term ; 
since '48 he has resided near Memphis, engaged in milling ; dur- 
ing the war two valuable mills owned by him were burned, and all 
his property destroyed. He was Justice of the Peace in Fayette 
county, '65-71 ; Count}^ Commissioner for thi-ee 3'ears under Gov. 
Brownlow's administration ; a local preacher of the M. E. church 
since '71, and was a delegate to the National Preachers' Conven- 
tion of that church in New York in '75. 

Samuel Sandt, A.M., M.D., Easton. — A member of the class 
of '42 ; in college from May, '39, to Feb., '41 ; graduated at 
Medical Department of Universit}^ of Pennsjdvania, '44, and has 
always practiced in Easton ; Assistant Surgeon 85th Regiment 
Pa. Yolunteers ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66; his son, 
C. A. Sandt, a lawj^er, graduated in '72. 

Charles Wilson, A.M., M.D,, New Berlin, Union Go. — From 
New Berlin ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '45 ; re- 
ceived A.M. from Lafayette in '66 ; his son. Dr. S. G. Wilson, 
was a member of the class of '71. 

*James Smith Wilson. — From Bucks county ; died in Bucks 
county in 1843. 

*JoHN Arndt. — From Easton; a student in 1839; died in 
Easton about '53. 

Amandus Daubert, Phillipsburg, N. J. — A worker in stone 
and marble, at Milford, N. J., and since '70 in Phillipsburg. 



168 The Men of Lafayette. 

Edward A. Depew, Eaaton.—^xovis, Easton ; a student in 1839 ; 
a merchant, and since '66, broker in Easton. 

W. R. Fetter, Landiaburg^ Perry Co. — A student a short 
time ; a farmer, 

*Charles Frederick Flemming. — Born in Easton, Dec. 21, 
1827; in business with his father in Easton until his death, April 
20, '59. 

*Mathias Melick. — From Easton; died in Easton in 1839. 

*Charles S. Morrison. — Farmer; from Montgomeiy county; 
a student one term ; died at his home about 1846. 

Giles Bleasdale Overton, A.M., Towanda. — Lawyer; Dele- 
gate to the Republican National Convention that nominated 
Lincoln in 1860; Captain in 14th U.S. Infantry, June 18, '61 ; 
wounded at the battle of Chancellorsville; on the staff of Major- 
General Sykes; brevetted Major, March 13, '65; resigned July 
25, '65 ; land agent at Easton, Md., '65-8, and in '70-6, Receiver 
of the U. S. Land Office at Salt Lake; received A.M. from La- 
fayette in '65. 

*JoHN Overton. — From Towanda; cousin of the preceding; 
went to California, and there died about 1853. 

*Charles Philippe. — From Easton; resided in the West; 
died in Philadelphia in 1858. 

George W. Schall, Dale^ Berks Co. — A student one year ; a 
farmer, and has been Associate Judge, Berks count}^ 

Archibald N. Semple, Bethlehem. — Born in Greenwich, War- 
ren county, N. J., 1826; a student in '39-'43 ; since Sept., '43, 
he has been engaged as a druggist ; now a manufacturer of 
paints. 

*Samuel Sitgreaves. — A son of Hon. Charles Sitgreaves, a 
Trustee in 1843-'53; went West; died in '53. 

D. Van Buren. — A student for a brief period ; his father was 
a cousin of the President of the United States, and first manager 
of the South Easton Iron Furnace; he removed to Kentucky. 



Former Students — tSjg, IGO 

^Gabriel Van Sant. — From Yardlejville; a student one 
term; in mercantile business, and died at Eugene, Vermilion 
county, Ind., in 1848; two of his brothers subsequently entered 
college. 

Abraham B. Weller, Gaston. — From New Village, N. J.; a 
student in 1839; farmer; since '75, merchant in Easton. 

*HuGH OsMUN Wilson, M.D.— Son of Abraham Wilson and 
brother of the two following ; born near Bath, Nov. 30, 1823 ; a 
student in '39-41 ; graduated at Medical Department of Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in '45 ; in '64, Assistant Surgeon in 
Provost Marshal's office ; practiced in White Hall, Bethlehem, 
and since '54, at Slatington, where he also held the office of 
Postmaster until his death, Feb., 27, '79, aged 58 ; his wife, two 
sons and two daughters survive him. 

*JonN Wilson. — Born near Bath; a student in '39-40; re- 
moved to Philadelphia; read law; enlisted in the Walker Ex^ 
pedition to Central America, and was there killed by the natives, 
April 11, '56. 

*Samuel Wilson, M.D. — Born near Bath ; a student in '39-'40 ; 
read medicine with Drs. William Wilson and Hoebner, at Bethle- 
hem, and graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsyl- 
vania in '44; practiced in White Hall, Lehigh county, until '60, 
when he removed to Quincy, 111., and early in the war engaged 
in the work of the Christian Commission among the tl*oops ; his 
death was caused by rupture of a blood vessel at Pittsburg 
Landing in '62. 

*Thomas McKeen Wilson.— From Easton; lost in the '' In- 
dependence," en route to California, in 1851. 

William Yoxtheimer, Northumberland. — A student one 
term; farmer; now retired and residing in Northumberland. 



Of the following, who entered in 1839, no information has been 
obtained : 

S. Edward Boyd. — From Brooklyn, N. Y. 

G. F. Gordon.— From Easton. 

John M.wbin. — From Delaware county. 

Edwin Miller. 

R. SAEGER.-^From Lehigh county. 



no The Men of Lafayette. 

ENTERED IN 1840. 

Rev. George Washington Burroughs, A.M., M.D., Slating- 
ton, Lehigh Co. — Born in Trenton, N. J.; in class of 1844; 
stndied theology at Princeton, '4(i-7; studied medicine at 
Rochester, Cleveland and Philadelphia; preached in Hunterdon 
count}', N. J.; pastor at Bensalem, Pa.; at Waterloo, N. Y. ; 
President of Female Seminary, Brooklyn ; Censor of Kings 
County Medical Society, N, Y. ; received A.M. from Lafaj^ette 
in '54. 

FuRMAN Field, M.D., Eoslyn,, N. Y. — From Milford, N. J.; 
in class of '44, Freshman and Sophomore years; graduated at 
Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania in 1846. 

*Edwin Sitgreaves. — Lawyer; born in Phillipsburg, N. J., 
Oct. 17, 182T ; in class of '45; left college in Junior year; ad- 
mitted to the bar at Easton, Nov. 21, '48; practiced in Phillips- 
burg, and there died, Nov. 16, '55; his son graduated in '66. 

Joseph McElroy Thompson. —From New York; a member of 
the class of '43 ; left in Junior year. 

JosiAH Fields. — From Cherokee Nation ; no information re- 
ceived. 

George Horn, Lidianapolis^ Ind. — From Easton; early lo- 
cated in mercantile business in Indianapolis. 

John D. Hoyt, Kingston, Luzerne Go. — A student for one 
year; an elder in the church; a coal operator, and engaged in 
farming. His son, E. E. Hoyt, graduated in '78. 

*Charles Ridgway. — Born at Sharpstown, Salem county, 
N. J., August 21, 1824; a student in '40-3 ; studied at Jefferson 
Medical College, '43-4, and then practiced medicine; during the 
latter part oft his life, engaged in farming at Shamong, where 
he died, a few years since. 

Manuel E. Rodriguez. — From Tampico, Mexico; a student 
in 1840-41 ; is supposed to have become a physician in Tanpico. 

ENTERED IN 184-1. 

William Jacob Benners, Philadelphia. — From Philadelphia; 
in college two years; merchant in Philadelphia; address is 1912 
Hamilton street. 



Former Students— 184.1. 171 

Samuel Sherrerd Clark, A.M., M.D., Belvidere^ N. J. — 
Born in Flemington, N. J., Nov. 8, 1825; grandson of Rev. 
Joseph Clark, D.D., who served on the staff of Gen. Washington; 
after two years at Lafayette, he entered Junior olass at Prince- 
ton, and there graduated in '45 ; graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of University of New York, '48, and practiced ever since 
at Belvidere; member of the United States, the New Jersey and 
the Warren County Medical Societies. 

*JoHN Whilldin Janvier. — From Pittsgrove, N. J. ; in class 
of '44 ; left at the end of Junior j-ear ; a man of culture ; Trustee 
of Presbyterian church, and farmer at Pittsgrove, where he died, 
March 9, 18U, aged 49. 

James Douglas Kirkpatrick, Charleston^ S. C. — Cotton 
factor; born in Charleston, April 21, 1825; accompanied Presi- 
dent J unkin to Miami University, and there graduated in '45 ; 
then graduated in Law Department of Harvard University in 
'47 ; never practiced, but engaged as cotton factor since '50. 

*Henry C. Longnecker. — Lawyer; graduated at West Point; 
Captain in Mexican war; admitted to the bar of Northampton 
county, Jan. 20, '43, and to the bar of Lehigh county Jan. 30, 
'44 ; Colonel of 9th Regiment Pa. Volunteers, and in command 
of a Brigade at Antietam ; member of Congress, '59-61 ; lawyer 
and judge at Allentown, and there died Sept.* 16, 'Tl, aged '46. 

George Loveland, A.M., Wilkes-Barre Lawyer; born in 

Wilkes-Barre, Nov. 5, 1823; in college Freshman and Sophomore 
years; taught; studied law at Wilkes-Barre, '45-8, and admitted 
to the Luzerne county bar in '48 ; received A.M. from * Lafayette 
in '65. 

*Abram McLaine — Died at Windsor, Broome county, N.Y., 
in 1843, at the end of his Sophomore year; candidate for the 
ministry. 

Rev. William Wynkoop McNair, A.M., Newark^ N. J. — 
Born at Brownsburg, Bucks county, Sept. 21, 1825; in class of 
'44, Sophomore and Junior j-ears ; graduated at College of New 
Jersey, '44; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminar}', '49; 
licensed Feb. 6, '49, by Presbytery of New Brunswick; ordained 



172 The Men of Lafayette. 

evangelist, May IT, '49, at Pennington, N. J.; missionary in 
Wisconsin '49-'65; Chaplain in U. S. Army, Feb. to July, '65; 
established the churches of Dekora, W3'0cena, Portage City, 
Oxford, Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls, Wis.; preached at At- 
lantic City, '70 to '72; pastor of Second Presbyterian church, 
Cedarville, N. J., '72-6; since, city missionary' at Newark. 

Nathaniel Michler, A.M., Tuledo^Ohio. — Lieutenant-Colonel 
of Engineers; Brevet Brigadier General U.S. Array; born in 
Easton, Pa., Sept. 13, 1827; in college '41-'44; graduated at 
West Point, '48; engaged in Military Government Surveys in 
Texas and New Mexico, '48-'51 ; boundary survey between the 
United States and Mexico, '51-7; Chief Engineer of Survey of 
Inter-Oceanic Ship Canal Route from Gulf of Darien to Pacific 
Ocean, '57-'60; boundary survey between Maryland and Virginia, 
'58-'61 ; Engineer of Light-House District, on Pacific Coast, 
'60-1; Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel U.S. Ami}, Chief Engineer 
Army of Potomac, '61-f>; Engineer Officer of Public Buildings 
and Grounds and Chief Engineer of the Washington Aqueduct, 
etc., '67-'71 ; Chief Engineer of the Military Division of the 
Pacific, '71-2 ; Engineer of 12th Light-House District, California 
coast, '72-3, and 18th Light-House District, and river improve- 
ments of Oregon, Washington Territory, and Idaho Territory, 
'73-5; since '76, engineer on river and harbor improvements on 
Lake Erie. 

John D. Patterson, Easton. — Born in Luzerne county, Dec. 
23, 1821; left college in Sophomore year, Feb., '44 ; taught in 
BuflTalo Valley, Pa., a year; clerk for the Lehigh Coal and Navi- 
gation Co^five years, from April, '46; agent for same company 
ten j-ears; wholesale coal merchant since '60. 

*Daniel E. Phillips From Beaver Meadow; a native of 

Wales; in college a j'^ear; a law3'er and teacher; admitted to 
the bar at Easton Aug. 21, 1848; taught in Easton in '50-1 ; 
died in Carbon county in '53. 

Alfred Reading, M.D, Trenton, N. J. — From Birmingham, 
Mercer count}-, N. J.; graduated at Medical Department of Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, '46; resided at Greensburg, N. J., until 
"76, but not practicing; since '76 at Trenton. 



Former Students — i8^i. ITS 

*lvEV. Edward Dokr Yeomans, D.D. — In college through 
Frt'shman, Sophomore und Junior years; taught; studied theolo- 
gy under his father, President Yeomans, and also one year, 
'40-7, at Princeton Theological Seminary; entered the ministry 
in '47; ordained Nov. 29, '54; was pastor at McEwensville, Pa., 
'54; Trenton, N. J.; Rochester, N. Y., '63; and from '67, at 
Orange, N. J., where he died, Aug. 25, '68, aged 40; translated 
from the German Dr. Philip Schaff's work on Apostolic Church 
Histor}-, and also Lange's Commentary on John. 

*JamesM. Benners. — From Philadelphia; a student in '41-2; 
in mercantile business in Philadelphia until his decease, about '54. 

John Fritts Crater, Princelov^ Bureau Go.^ Ills. — Born in 
German Valley, N. J., Aug. 24, 1825; a student in '41-2; he 
was a merchant tailor, '43-'53, and since '56, in Illinois, highly 
prospered in farming. He was married to Miss Elizabeth 
Neighbour, in Easton, on July 4, '48, by President Junkin. 

Mahlon D. Dickinson, Woodstown, N. J. — Born Sept. 17, 
1823, near Woodstown ; a student one year, '41-2; a farmer, and 
active in politics. 

William H. Eberle, Mauch Chunk. — From Easton ; a student 
in '41 ; Car Agent of Lehigh Valley Railroad at Mauch Chunk 
from '60 to '68; same office in Lehigh and Susquehanna Railroad 
since '68. 

John Conover Hinchman, New For^-.— Born in Morris coun- 
ty, N. J., in 1823; in college two years, intending to become a 
civil engineer, but entered the telegraph enterprise from its begin- 
ning, and is now General Superintendent of Western Union 
Telegraph Company ; resides at Summit, N. J. 

Joseph Augustus Hinchman. — From Schooley's Mountain, 
N. J.; brother of the preceding. 

David W. Maxey.— From Beaver Meadow; born in Wales; 
a student in '41; ministry in view; recently reported to be en- 
ofaged in minino- near Scranton. 



Of the following, who entered in 1841, no information has been 
obtained : 

William Good. — From White Hall, Lehigh county. 

A. H. Greknleaf. — From Indiana. 

Joseph Simanton Scroll. — From Siegersville, Lehigh county. 

A. J. Stevenson. — From Scotland, 



174 The Men of Lafayette. 

ENTERED IN 1842. 

*lvEV. John Peckwoktii Ijaldwin. — From I'hiladolphin ; be- 
came a Baptist minister ; died earl}', at Woodstown, Salem 
count}', N. J. 

Edward Kockiiill Bullock, A.M., FlemiiKjiov^ N. J. — Law- 
yer; born in Palls township, Bncks count}'. Pa., Oct. 17, 1818; 
engaged in stone-cuttiiii>;, '34-'42; also, '44-'57; in Model School 
and Freshman class, '42-4 ; studied law at Flemington, '53-7 ; 
admitted to the bar, June, '57, and to the XJ. S. District Court in 
'07; received A.M. from Lafayette in '()5; ]:)rosecutor of the 
Pleas for Hunterdon county, '(i8-'72. 

♦Samuel Carrell. — Died at Bath, Pa., in 1844. 

Ueiaii Carrell, Montclair^ N. J. Teacher; entered col- 
lege from Allen township; i)rivate and lieutenant 2d D. C. In- 
fantry ; private and captain 5th L^. S.Veteran Volunteer Lifantry ; 
recently agent of railroad at Montclair. 

''Silas C. Cook, Jr., A.M. — Tjawyer ; from Easion ; in classof 
'45 ; left college in Junior year, and graduated at Princeton, '45 ; 
admitted to the bar of Northampton county, Jan. 18, '48; prac- 
ticed in Kaston, and died Oct., 'fi5. 

Rev. Austin Craig, D.D., i^tanfordxnUe,, Dutchess Co., N. Y. 
— From Peapack, N. J. ; in college three years, '41-3 ; Professor 
of Greek in Antioch College, Ohio, '55-8; received D.D. from 
Antioch CoUege, '57 ; President-elect of Antiocli College, '57 ; 
lecturer in JSIeadville Tlieological School ; pastor Christian 
church, IMooming Grove, N. Y., to '55, and New Bedford, Mass., 
'66-8 ; received A.M from Lafayette in '64; President of the 
Christian Biblical Institute, at Eddy town, N. Y., '68-'72, and of 
the same since its removal to Stanfordville in '72. 

Samuel W. Dunn, M.D , Sparta., Wis. — From Pennington, N. 
J. ; graduated at the Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, '47 ; went to Wisconsin in '49, 

(tORDOn M. Fowler, Texas. — From Monroeton, Bradford coun- 
ty. Pa. ; has been for many years a railroad contiactor in the 
Southwest. 



Fornur Si u dents — 1842. 115 

Fkancis Van Dyke IIaoaman. — From White House, N. J. ; 
giadiiated at College of New Jerse3^, '48; resided for many years 
near Savannali, Ga. 

WijjJAM Winder Handy, A.M. — From Baltimore, Md. ; in 
Sophomore year he went to Princeton, and received the lionorary 
degree of A.M. from the College of New Jersey in 1848. 

*IlOBERT Dickson Hill. — From Xew Cliester, Adams coun- 
ty ; died at Gettysburg, in 1845. 

Andrew Hulshizer, Neio Village^ Warren Co., N. J. — From 
Stewartsville, N. J. ; a student one year ; farmer. 

William Sciienck Hunt. --From Lawrenceville, N. J.; in col- 
lege, '42-4 ; was in business in Philadelphia for many years ; no 
recent information received. 

John W. Johnston, Barri/ville, N. Y. — Lawyer ; born at Bar- 
ry ville ; in college two years, '42-4 ; studied law in Pike county, 
Pa., Dec, '44, to '46 ; admitted to the bar, Dec. 31, '46 ; admitted 
to practice in the Courts of the State of New York, Sept. 4, '55 ; 
in active practice to the present time. 

*PinLiP Johnson, A.M.— Born in Warren county, N. J., Jan. 
17, 1818; in '39 he removed to Mount Bethel; a student two 
years, '42-4, where by teaching penmanship, in which he was 
skilled, he aided in his support ; he taught in Mississippi two 
3'-ears ; then attended the Union Law Scliool in Easton, and was 
admitted to the bar at Easton, Nov, 21, '48 ; elected Clerk of the 
Court of Quarter Sessions in '48 ; member of the Pennsylvania 
Assembly '53-4; Chairman of the Democratic State Convention 
in '57 ; member of the Board of Reveinie Commissioners, '59 ; 
member of Congress, '61-7 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66; 
died in Washington, D. C, in '67, and interred in the Easton 
Cemetery. 

Theophilus Paevin, A.m., M.D., LL.D., Indianapolis^ Ind. — 
Born in Abington, Montgomery county ; in college one year ; 
graduated at the L^'niversity of Indiana in '47 ; and there received 
A.M. in "50 ; graduated at the Medical Department of the Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in '52 ; received LL.D. at Hanover Col- 
lege, Lid., in '72 ; permanent member of American Medical Asso- 



1T() The Men of Lafayette. 

ciation ; ex-President of Medical Society of Indiand, ; ex-ProfeS- 
sor Medical College of Ohio, and of Medical Department of the 
University of Louisville, Ky. ; associate editor of the American 
Practitioner ; author of various medical papers ; and for a long 
time past the superintendent of one of the Presbyterian Sunday 
schools ill Indianapolis., 

Gkorge Washington Porter, A.M., M.D,, Harrisburg. — A 
son of Gov. David R. Porter ; born at Huntingdon, March 9, 
1825 ; in college, '42-5 ; in the iron business in Harrisburg with 
his father, '45-7 ; graduated at the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania in '51 ; received A.M. from Lafayette 
in '52 : postmaster at Harrisburg, '57-'61 ; was for several years 
a Trustee of State Lisane Asylum, and now one of the inspectors 
of the Dauphin Count}' Prison. 

John Potter, — Registered as a law student under Hon. James 
M. Porter, in '42-3. 

* Alexander Wurts Rea, A.M. — P'rom Flemington, N- 
Jv, where ho subsequently became a lawyer and an editor ; entered 
Freshman class, and left in Sophomore year ; about the year '58 
he went to the Pennsylvania coal regions as agent of the Locust 
Mountain Coal and Iron Company, and superintendent of the 
Coal Uidge Improvement Company ; he resided at Centralia, Co- 
lumbia county, and on an expected pay-day was assassinated near 
his home by a band of Mollie Maguires, three of whom expiated 
their crime on the gallows ten ^-ears afterward ; he died Oct. IT, 
'68, aged 47 ; he received the degree of A.M. from Alma Mater 
in '49, and at that time was living in Harrisburg ; he was a liberal 
donor to the endowment fund. 

*MosEs C. Warner. — From Athens, Bradford count}' ; born 
about 1822 ; after leaving college he was for some time engaged 
on a steamer on the Ohio, and is said to have perished in a disas- 
ter on that river about 1847. 

♦Robert Bell.. — From Philadelphia ; became a teacher ; died 
about 1854. 

Jesse Moore Cook, A.M., Philadelphia. — From Lawrenceville^ 
N. J. ; a student one year ; coal shipper, at 214 Walnut Street. 



Former Students — 184.2. 177 

^Samuel Siierrerd Green. — Born in New Jersey, near Easton, 
July 13, 1829 ; a student in '42-6 ; for a short time a sailor, but 
the rest of his life a miner and farmer in California, where he 
died, at San Luis Obispo, Nov., '68, from being thrown from a 
wagon ; he left several children and a widow, a native of Califor- 
nia, of Spanish descent. 

George P. Ihrie, iVew; Yorh City From Greenwich town- 
ship, Warren county, N. J.; son of the State Librarian of New 
Jersey; a student one term; commissioned Brevet Brigadier- 
General U. S. Volunteers, June 12, '62 ; A. D. C. and Inspector- 
General on staff of General Grant, '62-3 ; Paymaster U. S. A rmy ; 
first delegate to Congress from Alaska Territory, elected Oct., 
'69; then engaged in mercantile business in San Francisco, Cal.; 
now in New York. 

*ARTHUtt C. Kessler From Easton; killed by the explosion 

of the steamer Alfred Thomas, at Easton, March 6, 1860. 

William Monroe McCarty. — From Philadelphia; a student 
in '42-3. 

Washington McDonogh, Sinou^ Liberia. — From New Or- 
leans; in Special course; went to Africa in 1843, and was a 
teacher among the Kroos, at Settra Kroo, Liberia, under the ap- 
pointment of the Presbj-terian Board of Foreign Missions 
until '71, when the appointment was discontinued; now resides 
at Sinou. 

*De Witt Clinton Moore, A.M.— Born at Ewing, near 
Trenton, N. J., Dec. 22, 1825; a student in '42-3 ; in '43 went to 
Philadelphia and engaged in mercantile business; he was one of 
the charter members of the Second Reformed Dutch church, of 
which for twenty years he was a Trustee and Superintendent of 
the Sunday School ; he filled many places of trust and responsi- 
bility; was a School Director, City Trustee, Captain in the 40th 
Pa. Regiment, and Colonel in the State Guards; he died in '76; 
the monument erected by his Sunday School bears the inscription, 
"An earnest Christian, full of generous impulses; by his social 
qualities and rare gift in song he won the hearts of all who knew 
him." 



ITS The Men of Lafayette. 

Henui Montluo From BiiyoiuK', Fiiuice; :i student in the 

summer term, 1842. 

♦Jamks Pollock, Jii,— ]iorn in Heothuul, Au<2;. :51, 1817; a 
student one year; marble-worker; resided in Easton and (hinada; 
died in Eastou, Dec. 20, '(17. 

Josjii'ii TiTUS ScLUDiai, ridrobdoicn., Barliiujlua Co., N.J. — 
From Lawrencevillc, N. J.; a farmer. 

James L. Selfuiduk, A.M. — rhiladdjikia. — Born in Berks 
county, Sept. 22, 1824; reared in Allentown; a student in '40-3; 
in mercantile business in IMiiladelphia, '44-'.57 ; also, in Bethle- 
hem, '57-'61 ; Captain in l.st I'a. Volunteers, April, '111 ; Lieut.- 
Colonel 4()th Pa. Regiment, and Colonel in '()2 ; Brevet brigadier 
General, March 13,'(;r) ; Ixejjublican nominee for Congress in 11th 
Pennsylvania District in '(14 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65; 
Assessor of Internal Bevenue in 'Gf)-() ; Major-General of Pa. 
Militia, '07 ; Chief Clerk of Pennsylvania House ol" Hepresenta- 
tives, '()8-'74. [See steel porhait and sketeli in biographical 
Encyclopedia of Eminent Pennsylvaniiins.] 

II iiiKL B. Titus, Trenton, N. J. — Merchant; enten'd college 
from Titusville, N. J. ; in military service, was Fiist Lieutenant 
of the 21st N. J, Infantry, and Captain on Gen. Mott's stalf; in 
business at Marble Hill, Mo., 'Gr)-'74 ; now at Trenton. 

ENTERED IN 184-3. 

Jt)nN Maxwkll Ahkrnktuy, Ph. G., Jer\'<ejj Cilij, N.J. — Phar- 
macist; son of Dr. II. II. Abernethy, of Easton; born at Still 
Yalley, Warren county, N. .1.; a student several years; farmer 
in A^irginia and New Jersey, '51-'r)8; graduated at Philadelphia 
College of Pharmacy, '(il ; since Oct., '01, pharmacist in Jersey 
City, No. 188 Newark Avenue. 

BoRKRT n. Abehnetiiy, Edxton. — A brother of the preceding ; 
for n\any years a surveyor ; since '77 a merchant. 

* Joseph Engles Aonew. — From Philadelphia; died at Easton 
from injuries caused by a fall, Aug. 20, '44, aged 17. 

Rev. John Douglass Bemo, Muskogee, Indian Ter — Young- 
est of seventeen children, and a nephew of Osceola, the chief of 



Former Students — i<^^J. ^"^^ 

the Seminolcs ; born in Florida, in 1825; at the age of nine, 
while hunting in the foreKt, he heard the High Spirit calling to 
him — " Husti-Coluc-Chee, who' arle' car tarle;" the former 
phrase being his Indian name, and the latt<jr expression signifying 
*' go, tell it," which he interpreted in after years as a call to preach 
the gospel. He was brought to New York at the age of 14 ; was 
in college about three years, frequently lecturing for his support ; 
he was a missionary of the Presbyterian church among his tribe, 
which now numbers four thousand ; of them he has gathered two 
thousand seven hundred converts into the cliurch in a mini^itry 
of 24 jears ; and has preached and lectured in many States of 
the Union, revisiting Easton in '17. A recent card gives his 
name as Tal-a-mas-mico, or King of the Forest. 

John Su Cook, A. M., M.D., Hackettstown ^ N. J, — Bom at 
Stewartsville, X. J., June 19, 1827 ; entered Sophomore ; left at 
end of Junior year, and graduated at Union College, '47, and at 
Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania, '50 ; and 
has since been in continuous practice at Hackettstown ; member 
of the Warren County Medical Society, of the X. J. Academy of 
Medicine, and Vice President of the State Medical Society. 

Ephbaim Brodaway Davis, FhillipHburg^ N. J. — Left college 
in Senior year ; farmer, and twelve years School Superintendent 
in Cumberland county, N. J. ; since 1871 at Phillipsburg ; mayor 
in '78. 

George S. Gibbes Harvey — From Abington, Montgomery 
county ; in college '43-5 ; engaged in mercantile life for many 
3'ears in New Orleans, and recently in New York and Philadel- 
phia. 

Joseph W. Hart — From Pittsburg ; a student one 3'ear. 

♦John Francis Hepburn A student in '43-5 ; son of Hon. 

Hopewell Hepburn, who removed from Easton in 1845 to accept 
the appointment of Presiding Judge at Pittsburg; died of inju- 
ries received by being thrown from a carriage, in Philadelphia, in 
'58. 

Laurence Cauffman Hepburn, j&a.^ton Lawyer; brother of 

the preceding; left the class of '48 in Junior year; since '67 a 
resident of Easton. 



180 The Men of Lafayette. 

Kkv. lOnwiN MtilvKKN LoNu, A.iSl., Pliilddflp/iia. — Evangelist 
and oditor ; onloivil collogc (Vdiu Hiu^ks county ; lt*it in 'Id, and 
ji'mduatiMl at Mnrsliall ('(ill('<;t', 'IS; niithoi- oi' 'M'rooioiia 
Hymns <»f .losns," " Talks t.<) (MiiKlitMi," " llliist rated History of 
Hymns, and thoir Authors,'' " (Jood News," and ''Work of 
Grace in the Hearts i)!' tlu' Young;" has delivoivd courses of 
Hlustratcd Sermons, and other evangi'listio labors in over six 
hundii'd elnui'hes, in niiieteiMi States of the Union, among twelve 
denominations, and in ti>e (JiMiuan as Mi'll as theKnglish language. 
Resides at 1859 North iLMh Street. 

Hknkv I'ouTKK, (\irli!<lf. — Sou i>r (lov. Daviil K. Porter; 
Ihuu at Huntingdt>n, in 1S;U) ; in eolK'ge, 'to-S ; then studied 
law in the ortlce of his uncle, Hon. .lames M. Porter; in 'IS en- 
gaged in business as a wholesale merchant, and manager of iron 
furnaces ; bearer of V. S. Government dispatches to Mexico and 
Calitornia in '52; aid to Gov. Bigler, of Pennsylvania, as Tjieut.- 
Cohmel, and Captain in V. S. Army with Generals Burnside and 
Foster, '(52-4 ; wtMinded while eaptuiiiig salt works in North 
Carolina in '('>2 ; appointed by (Jov. Geary Assistant Military 
Agent for Pennsylvania at ^Vashiugton, 1>. (\, '(!(! 7 ; First As- 
sistant Naval Ollieer of Customs in Philadelphia, '7 1 S. 

*CuAKi,KS P. Pori'iNUKiv, A.M. — l<'rom Paltimore, Md.; a 
sailor; he entered iH>llege at the beginning of Freshman year; 
and iluring the .1 uuior year went to Princeton, but left before 
graduation ; he became a druggist, sailor, reporter. Acting Vol- 
unteer Lieutenant in the V. 8. Navy, and Alderman in Philadel- 
phia, in which olUce hcilied, July, '(')8. "A man of commanding 
pi'rsi>nal appearance." K(>eeived .\.M. from Lafayette in '(it!. 

Rev. H.vviP Tiim.Y, Otucego, N. Y. — Entered college from 
Peterboro, Fpper Canada, and left at the end of Junior year; 
graduated at Union (\)llege, '47; Chaplain 7Tth N. Y. Infantry, 
'62; pastor at BaUston, N. Y. ; Pelvidere, N. J., '(U)-'72; since, 
at Oswego. 

Rev. Alfred Ykom.vns, D.D., Orange, N. J. — A student in 
'43-4 ; graduated at Ci>llege of New Jersey, '52 ; entered Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary, and graduated in '60 ; ordained at Mus- 
conetcong A'allev, N. J.,Dec. 20, 'tU) ; Calvary church, Uochester, 



I'ormcr S/iidcuLs — f^4J. '^' 

\.y., '(;5; lifllcfonf,'-, r.'i., 'f;(; ; (Central clnircli, Onin^'c-, N..I., 
'f;0; n;c(tiv(:d 'Icf^n-c of I). I). Jif- (Jollcgc of N<;w .JfrrHcy, '78. 

Wft.MAM C'. r'liAl'MAN, A.M., Yovlr. — I/twyr;r; frorii .Mo- 
f;li!i,iiif;sl)urf5 ; I)iHt,rir;t, .Atl/Orncy of Votl< c-oiuif.y, 'r)f»-'f;,'i; ni- 
ce! v'(-'l A..M. from lijifjiyfitte in 'O-S. 

VVn, 1,1AM Z. \V. (JjfAI'.MA.V. - I'rorn J')iil;i.(U:lphiri. ; lif. \i<:(::\.\ui; a 
fIcritiHt, jiTid rchiflcfl nl- AndaluHiu, IJuokH county. 

.Iamkh a i,kxani)KI!. (U\\'..\hv\v.^ Nf/w York (jUy. — VA\U:r((\ col- 
Ic^'c IVoiti VVcht, I'.'irfds, N. v.; denliKt, ;i,t, :'/)') l']if.'l)Ui !i.vcriii(;. 

-^ V\'n-i-iAM Lkwi.h I>AVfH, A.m. — iJoni in i']uHton ; one of Uic 
roMM'lerH of FjOMloaiafi^ TiO ; fVHinrlcl the l<UiMl<>n iJoihj I'lxjircM 
in ';'j5, iirid wjjh it,H f;'liloi- iinlil IjIh fieaf.li, in l']ast,on, Oet,. .';, '70, 
•A\li-A i'.'j ; n;oeive.fJ A..M. Croi/i Lufay<;tt,(; in 'GO. 

FitKDKRicK Dkmckkii, 'J'rf'/rdon, N. ./. Krorn Sehooley'H 

Moiinlain, N'. .J.; rnuniifuelurer of pottery, 'fi.5-'7r; ; in '78, coal 
biisincHH, 

-''Knvvf.v P. I'lKi.i)- I)i<'l in I'.'-'i-ton, April, I 87 1 , ;)f.^e'l 42. 

IIkv. JoNATHA.v C.GiiiiiH, ToMoJi.oMHfU',^ Fid,. — A man of color ; 
in Hpecial course; rni.HHioruiry to Frcedrncn at N(;wherne, N. (J., 
an'l in Klori'l,) nrj'lcr the Presbyterian Freedrncn's Comraittee. 

*Ha/ki- .V. (io/.VKH. J''r<jrn riiiiadelpliia ; in college, ruie year; 
a colored man of conHideraMe inU-Jlectnal force; writ t,o ^'on- 
necticut; died about 1800. 

.]()\\s llK.NJtv (iooijKiiL. — From Fawton ; a fitudcnt in '4.';-0; 
sub.scquently a resident of New York City ; in mercantile biini- 

riCHH. 

ilOHH R. IllRiK, M.O., J'lUHhoro^ NJJ.— \>()VU in Fanton, .March, 
1828; a student in '44-7; graduated at Medical Department of 
(.'nivernity of J'ennsylvania, '.50; Captain anrl Lieut.-Colonel of 
Infantry in the sei'vice of the Confederate States. 

.losf.i'H MooKK. — In the catalof^ue as a student from ffunting- 
don, in 1842-.'i; probably Isaiah Moore, of '44, is intcnde.d. 

CiiAKLKHCSohh, Easftrm.—A student in 1 843—5 ; succeeded 
his father in business in Easton. 



182 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. Joseph William Santee, AM,, Cavetoivn, Md. — From 
Bethlehem township; graduated at Marshall College, 1848; 
pastor German Reformed church. 

George Yeomans, M.D., Ashland^ Schuylkill Co.— Sou of 
President J. W. Yeomans; was born Feb. 25,1833; a student 
in '43-4; graduated at Williams College in '56 ; graduated at 
Jefferson Medical College in '60; Assistant Surgeon 23d Regi- 
ment Fa. Volunteers, '62-3 ; practiced at Danville, and for many 
years past at Ashland. 

Rev. John F. Wilson. — A man of color, from Philadelphia; 
in special course ; missionary to Liberia. 

ENTERED IN 184-4. 

Israel S. Boyer, Dayton, Ohio. — Merchant ; born near Amity- 
ville, Berks county, 1824; one year in Preparatory Department, 
and a year Freshman ; Sophomore and Junior at Gettysburg ; 
in '46-9 in mercantile business in New Orleans, and Yucatan ; 
since '49 at Dayton, wholesale dry goods. 

E. H. Bunting. — Stated to have entered the ministry of 
the Protestant Episcopal church and to have preached in Texas. 

*George Woodin Chidsey. — Born at Green River, N. Y., 
May 15, 1832; shipping clerk for the Thomas Iron Co.; from 
the time of his shipwreck, while traveling to California, his 
health declined until his death, at Elizabeth, N. J., March 15, "74. 

Joseph S. Cook, A.M., M.D., Washington, N. J. — Born at 
Hackettstown, N. J., March 26, 1830 ; in college Freshman and 
Sophomore years ; graduated at Union College, '53, and at Med- 
ical Department of University of Pennsylvania, '56 ; appointed 
Assistant Surgeon of the 31st Regiment N. J. Yolunteers, Sept., 
'62; received A.M. from Lafayette, '65 ; Fellow of the Ameri- 
can Academ}' of Medicine. 

John D. Graham.— From London, England ; in college a 
short time. 

Rev. William Finney Junkin, D.D., Charleston, S. C. — 
Born in Philadelphia, May 1, 1831 ; left college in '48, at the end 
of Freshman year ; graduated at Washington College, now Wash- 



Former Students — 18^4.. 183 

ington and Lee University, '51, and at Princeton Theological 
Seminary, '54; licensed in New Yoric, April, 54; ordained, '55 ; 
pastor of Falling Spring church, Va., '54-'68 ; Danville, K3^, 
'68-'76; since '76, pastor of Globe Street church, Charleston, 
S. C. ; received D.D. from Washington and Lee University, '74. 

Alfred Kennedy, Greenfield., Dade Co.., Mo, — Born in War- 
ren county, N. J., Sept. 22, 1830 ; left at the end of Junior year ; 
went to Missouri in '57, and engaged in farming ; entered the 
Union army as a private in '62, leaving in '65 as Captain of Com- 
pany M, 8th Mo. Cavalry; resumed farming in '66; was Sheriff 
and Collector of Dade county, '68-'72 ; County Treasurer, '72-4 ; 
and in '77, was appointed Count3^ Collector. 

*Rev. George K. Marriner. — Born at Lewes, Del. ; left at 
end of Junior year; graduated at Washington College, Va., in 
'49 ; entered Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated 
in '52 ; preached at Cochecton, N. Y. ; taught at Basking Ridge, 
N. J. ; preached at Warrenham, Pa.; his health failing, he became a 
photographer in New Jerse}^, and died at Trenton, Sept. 5, '69, 
aged 48. 

*Andrew Parker Porter. — The third son of Hon. James M. 
Porter, President of the Board of Trustees ; born inEaston, June 
17, 1835 ; left college near the end of Junior year, and went to 
West Point, where he graduated in '56 ; he was appointed Second 
Lieutenant, 2d Cavalry, and assigned to duty in Texas and In- 
dian Territory until '61 ; on March 20, '61, he was promoted to 
First Lieutenant, 2d Cavahy, serving as Commissary of the 
Army of the Potomac, '61-2 ; from August 20, '62, until July 3, 
'65, he acted as Lieutenant Colonel in the Volunteer service ; 
chief of the Commissary Department of the Cumberland, '63-5 ; 
brevetted Major, March 13, '65, "for faithful and meritorious 
services during the rebellion;" while acting as chief of the Com- 
missary Department of Arkansas and Indian Territory, he died 
at Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 15, '66, aged 31. 

Rev. Robert Mack Wallace, A.M., Stroudsburg. — Born at 
Upper Mount Bethel, April 17, 1825 ; left college at end of Jun- 
ior year, and graduated at Washington College, Va., '49 ; gradu- 
ated at Western Theological Seminary, '52 ; licensed by Presby- 



184 The Men of Lafayette. 

tery of Newton, at Stewartsville, N, J,, April, '51 ; ordained by 
Presbytery of Redstone, April, '53 ; pastor at Brownsville twelve 
years ; at Altoona twelve years ; and at Stroudsburg since March, 
"76 ; permanent Clerk of Synod of Harrisburg, "10-6 ; received 
A.M. ad eundem from Lafayette in '66. 

John Woolverton, A.M., M.D., Trenion^N. J.— Born in Stock- 
ton, N. J,, Oct. 21, 1825 ; in college, '44-6 ; read medicine in New 
Hope, Pa. ; graduated at the Medical Department of the Univer- 
sity of Penns^'lvania, '49 ; began practicing medicine, April, '49 ; 
received degree of A.M. from Lafayette in '61 ; State Senator 
from Mercer county, N. J., '68-"70 ; President of State Medical 
Society, '62. 

Samuel Alexander, — From Philadelphia ; has led the life of 
an invalid. 

*JoHN F. Bachman Printer ; born in Lower Saucon ; North- 
ampton county, Jan. 25, 1831 ; a student one year ; served through 
the Mexican war ; was one of the successful storming party at 
the fortress of Chepultepec ; in California, Feb., '49, to Aug., '51 ; 
in '51 issued the Panatno. Star, the first newspaper published in 
that city ; Clerk of the Courts of Northampton county, from 
Dec, '54, until his death at Easton, April 29, '58. 

Robert T. Ballantyne, Easton, — From Easton ; a student in 
'43-6 ; in military service in '61, in 1st Pennsylvania Regiment ; 
in mercantile business ; and for some years past in employ of the 
Lehigh Valley Railroad. 

*William Henry Barnet.— From Easton ; born Dec. 11, 1831; 
a student one year ; sought a sailor's life, and on his first home 
voyage was lost at sea, March 21, '48. 

James Boyd. — Engaged in mercantile business in South Easton, 
and in 1863 removed to California. 

*HoRACB W. Carey, — From Easton ; born in 1830 ; a student 
in '44-5 ; became a marble cutter; removed to Frenchtown, N. 
J, ; there enlisted, Aug. 14, '61, in Company A, 5th N, J. Regi- 
ment, and is reported to have died in military service, 

*George Chapman. — A student one j^ear ; farmer; died at 
Shepherdstown, Cumberland county, Oct., 1862, 



Former Students — iS^/f.. 185 

*Henry Russell Ciiidsey. — Merchant; born in Easton, June 
16, 1834 ; a student in '44-7; died in Easton, July 21, '70. A 
liberal donor to the college. 

Charles W. Dickson, — Son of John Dickson, of Easton, a 
Trustee of Lafayette ; a student in '44-7 ; became a mechanic. 

William J. Dickson, M.D., Kniglitsville^ Lid. — A brother of 
the preceding; he was Assistant Surgeon of the 61st Indiana 
Regiment, and by exposure so suffered in health that since the 
close of the war he has led the life of an invalid. 

Thomas Drake, Easton. — From Easton ; a student three 
years ; iron manufacturer. 

*JoHN C. Drinkhouse. — Machinist ; a student in '44-6 ; died 
in Easton in 1858. 

William S. Green, Philadelphia. — Born in Warren county, 
N. J., August 10, 1831; a student two years, when his father's 
decease compelled him to discontinue further study ; he entered 
on business in New York, '50-4, and for twenty-five years has 
been with C. & H. Borie, brokers, being now head book-keeper 
and cashier. 

John Frederick Gwinner, Easton Born in Easton, April 

9, 1833 ; a student in '44-8; taught in Monroe county, '50-2 ; in 
Easton, '54 to July, '57 ; since which time he has been in the 
Farmers' and Mechanics' (now First National) Bank, and now 
holds the position of Cashier. 

Frederick B. Heath. — From Easton; a student in '44-7; 
engaged in mercantile life in New York. 

Pascal J. Hoopes, M.D., West Philadelphia. — Born in Chester 
county, December 5, 1827; early residence was in Delaware 
county ; a student two years ; entered Jefferson College in '48 ; 
graduated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, 
in '52, and has ever since practiced in Philadelphia. 

Edward Innes, Easton. — Born in Easton ; son of Dr. Charles 
Innes ; in the office of the Thomas Iron Company until '72. 

*Joseph M. Innes. — Brotherof the preceding; born in Easton; 
a student in '44-6; in '57, went to California; was engaged in 



186 The Men of Lafayette. 

general business, and died at Mormon Island, near Sacramento, 
Feb. 20, '76. 

Mayhew Johnson, A.M., M.D., Penns Grove, Salem Co., N. J, 
—Born at Pitts Grove, May 28, 1828; a student from Sept., '44, 
to July, '4.5; graduated at Medical Department of Universit}^ of 
Pennsylvania in '50 ; commenced practid^ at Hancock's Bridge 
in '51 ; in '56, removed to Penns Grove, where he is now physician 
and druggist; Superintendent of Public Schools, '60-1 ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 

*Samuel McLean, A.M.— Lawyer ; born at Summit Hill, 
Carbon county, Aug. T, 1826; a student in '44-6; studied law 
in the otlice of Judge McCartney, and was admitted to the bar, 
Nov. 21, '48, and located at Mauch Chunk; in '49 he went to 
California, via Cape Horn ; returning in '55, he again located in 
Mauch Chunk, and was District Attorney, '57-'60; he then went 
to Colorado, and became Attorney General; was connected with 
the organization of the Territory of Montana, and its representa- 
tive in Congress for the first two terms; President of the Mc- 
Lean Silver Mining Company' ; in '69, he removed to Nottowaj' 
county, Ya., where he became actively engaged in planting, and 
tlierc died, July 16, "18. 

Abel Marple, CaUao, Macov Co., No. — Born in Chester 
County, Pa., June 22, 1820; a student in '44; engaged principal- 
ly in teaching, nnd in the work of the American Sundaj' School 
Union in Missouii. Son in class of '82. 

'Clarence Michler Son of Hon. P. S. Michler, a Trustee ; 

born in Easton, June, 1834; engaged in coal business in Mauch 
Chunk; served in the war in the 1st Pa. Regiment, and as 
Adjutant and (^aptnin of Cavalry in General Banks' expedition; 
after the war he was engaged as a civil engineer on the Northern 
Pacific Eaihoad; died in Wheeling, W. Va., Sept., '70. 

"Isaiah Moore. — From Huntingdon ; Captain U. S. Dragoons; 
died in the regular service in Colorado Territory, in 1861. 

John Moore From Shepherdstown, Cumberland county : a 

st udent for a short time : a teacher in Northern Ohio. 



Former Students — iS^jj.. 187 

William J. Moore, M. D., Austin, Texas.— From Flemington, 
N. J. ; a student in '44-6 ; graduated at Jefferson, Medical Col- 
lege in '48 ; married Miss Josephine, daughter of the Rev. Isaac 
Winner, of New Jersey, and removed to Texas twenty- years ago 

Henry M. Mutchler, Easton- Lawyer ; admitted to North- 
ampton county bar, August 22, 1848. 

*Charles Stewart. — Born in Mansfield township, Warren 
county, N. J., in 1829 ; a student two years ; died in San Fran- 
cisco about 1855. 

Jacob A. Stewart. — Lawyer ; born in Mansfield township, 
Warren county, N. J., 1831 ; a student three years ; completed 
the study of law at St. Louis ; married in Leavenworth, Kansas, 
in '68. 

ENTERED IN 184-5. 

*Charles John Gibons. — Son of the late Hon. John S. Gibons, 
of Allentown ; in class of '49 ; left in Sophomore year ; died at 
Allentown in '48. The names of two brothers occur in '46 and 

'48. 

William Butler Guild, Jr., Newark, N. J. — Lawyer ; from 
Newark, N. J. ; left college at end of Freshman year ; graduated 
at College of New Jersey, '51 ; admitted to the bar of New Jer- 
sey, June, '54 ; counsellor, Feb., '60. 

Joseph R. Hart. — From Pittsburg ; left college at the begin- 
ning of Sophomore year in '47. 

Rev. Martin Lowrie Hofford, A.M., Morrisville. — Born near 
Doylestown, Bucks county, Jan. 27, 1828 ; left at end of Junior 
year; graduated at College of New Jersey, '49; studied theolog}- 
at Princeton Theological Seminary one year ; licensed by second 
Presbytery of Philadelphia, June, '52 ; ordained evangelist by 
Presbytery of Burlington, May, '55 ; preached atTamaqua,'52-3; 
pastor and teacher at Beverh^, N. J., until '63, when he opened a 
military and collegiate Institute at Allentown, Pa. ; pastor at 
Fairview, '68-'72 ; at Delanco, '72-4 ; at Riverton, N. J., '74-7; 
since '77, at Morrisville. 

Joseph W. Hunsicker, Philadelphia Lawyer; entered col- 
lege from Trappe, Montgomery county; left at the end of Junior 



188 The Men of Lafayette. 

,year, and graduated at Union College; admitted to Northampton 
count}' bar Nov. 19,1850; practiced since '50 in Norristown, 
and of late in Philadelphia. 

* J AMES T. Mahaffy.— From Wilmington, Delaware, where 
he died in 1848, in his Senior year. 

*Rev. John Clemens Miller From Trappe, Montgomery' 

county; in class of 1848 in Sophomore year; German Reformed 
minister; died at Trappe in '51, aged 25. 

* Alfred Phillips, — From Pulaski, Mercer county; in col- 
lege one term ; graduated at College of New Jersey, '50 ; died 
in the third year of his studies in Princeton Theological Semi- 
nary, Oct. 22, '53. 

Thomas Sloan. — From Lancaster count}'; in class of 1850; 
went to Washington College, Pa.; President of Commercial Col- 
lege; Colonel of 124th Ills. Infantr}'; when last heard from 
(1872) resided in Chicago. 

*SoLOMON Beers, M.D. — From vicinity of Bath; read medi- 
cine in Easton, and graduated at Medical Department of Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania in '50 ; went West, and was early re- 
ported to be deceased. 

William Bethell, Millville^ N. J. — From Millville; a student 
one year ; after leaving college, engaged in business at Millville 

Henry M. Bossert. — From Sunbury ; Captain in 11th Pa. 
Infantry, 1861-2; Colonel 13 Uh Pa. Infantry, '62-3; since the 
war he has resided in New Jerse}'. 

Charles Dan Brodhead, Sh-oudsbitrg. — Merchant; entered 
college from Stroudsburg; member of Pennsylvania Senate, 
'59-'62. 

George F. Eadie. — From Camptown, or Newark, N. J.; a 
student one year. 

*John Christian Fleming. — Born in Easton, April 15, 1832; 
a student three years ; in business as successor to his father un- 
til his death, March IT, '74, aged 41. 



Former Students — iS^^. 189 

George W. Feeeman, A.M., M.D., Freemansburg. — From 
Freemansburg; a student one year; graduated at Medical De- 
partment of University- of Pennsylvania, '52 ; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '66. 

Edward Dunham Green, Philadelphia. — Born in Warren 
county, N. J., Aug. 18, 1833; a student two years; went to 
Chili, South America, in "53; crossed the Continent of South 
America, descending the Amazon River from near its source to 
its mouth ; resided for a short time at Tampa Baj-, Florida ; in 
business in Easton, '56-'76 ; since in Philadelphia, at 513 Green 
Street. 

William H. Gwinner, Phillipsburg, N. J. — From Easton ; a 
student one year ; undertaker in Phillipsburg until '79 ; and now 
farming in Eastern Maryland. 

John H. Heckman, 3Iauch Chunk. — Born in Easton in 1832; 
a student in '45-7 ; engaged in telegraphing, and superintendent 
of the Lehigh Valley Railroad telegraph line until '75 ; since '75 
first assistant general freight agent of Lehigh Valley Railroad at 
Mauch Chunk. 

*WiLLiAM M. Illick. — Farmer ; a student in '45-6 ; died at 
Centreville, Northampton county, about 1859. 

John McGill, A.M., Philadelphia. — From Churchtown, Lan- 
caster county ; in mercantile business many years at Churchtown, 
but since '65, woolen manufacturer in Philadelphia ; resides at 
2036 Spring Garden Street; received A.M. from Lafayette in '74. 

*John R. McMullin From Easton ; a student one year ; in 

mercantile business in Philadelphia, where he died about 1862. 

*JosEPH W. Miner. — Lawj^er ; from Wilkes-Barre ; matricula- 
ted as a law student with Hon. James M. Porter ; served in the 
Mexican war as Captain ; practiced at Wilkes-Barre a short time; 
then became an editor ; and afterward farmed ; died in Wilkes- 
Barre in '59. 

Jacob Nickum, Hellertown. — From Hellertown ; a student one 
term ; teacher, and Justice of the Peace. 



190 The Men of Lafayette. 

*Henry J. Noll. — Merchant; from Easton, where he died Oct. 
16, 1811, aged 42. 

Edward M. Reese. — From Easton ; a student in '45-6 ; of re- 
cent years in Harrisburg. 

*FrancisH. Skiles. — From Cain's, Lancaster county ; a student 
in '45-6 ; reported to be deceased. 

Hervey W. Smith. — From Wyoming county ; a student of law 
under Hon. James M. Porter. 

William Spencer, Miner sville^ Schuylkill Co. — Coal merchant; 
from Minersville ; a student two years ; became coal operator at 
Buck Mountain, Carbon county, Nov., 1813. 

John R. Stewart, San Francisco, Gal. — Born in Warren coun- 
ty, N. J., in 1827 ; a student two years. 

*JoHN Jacob Strader. — Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 9, 
1833; son of Jacob Strader, proprietor of the Ohio line of 
steamers ; a student two years ; a member of President Junkin's 
family ; died in the West, Nov. 27, 1854. 

* Jackson Weller. — From Mansfield, N. J. ; a student in '45 ; 
died at Clinton, N. J., 1859 ; hotel Iceeper. 

*Charles Elmore Williams. — From Cincinnati, Ohio ; a 
student one year ; married in Easton in '47 ; and died in Cincin- 
nati in 1849. 

ENTERED IN 1846. 

Stephen B. Avery. — From Charlemont, Massachusetts; a 
student in Freshman year. 

* James W. Boyd. — From McEwensville; in the class of '48, 
Sophomore and part of Junior year ; died in Mexican war. 

Thomas A. Colt, A.M. — From New York city ; in college one 
term. Sophomore class of '49 ; member of the Illinois Legisla- 
ture ; Lieut. Colonel 26th N. J. Regiment, commanding a Bri- 
gade ; Inspector General, with rank of Colonel ; received A.M. 
from Lafayette in '65, being then a resident of Irvington, N. J. ; 
last known residence was Newark, N. J. 



t'onncr Students— 18^6. 191 

Rev. Edward L. Dodder, A.M., Knoxville^ Iowa. — From 
Warren county, N. J.; in preparatory department one year, and 
in college until middle of Junior year; graduated at Jefterson 
College, '52 ; entered Allegheny Theological Seminary ; studied 
one year in Princeton Theological Seminary, and graduated in '55; 
preached in Taneytown, Md., '55 ; Dunleith, 111., '56 ; ordained 
at Dubuque, Oct., '56 ; preached at Tipton, Iowa, '70 ; afterward 
at Centreville ; now at Knoxville. 

*Henry McEorie Dusenbery. — Born at Lexington, N. C, 
March 26, 1829; in Junior class; Freshman, Sophomore and 
Senior, at University of North Carolina, at Chapel Hill, where 
he graduated in '49 ; studied law at Lexington, but never entered 
on its full practice ; for several years was Clerk and Master in 
Equity at Lexington ; the last four years be suffered from pul- 
monar}" difficulty, and died at Lexington, March 17, 1862; un- 
married. 

Rev. E. D. Finney, FoUston, 3Id From Churchville, Md. ; in 

college two years, '46-8; graduated at Washington College, Va., 
'49 ; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminar^'-, in '52 j 
oidained at Greenwood, Miss., April 5, '56 ; preached at Hermit- 
age, Tenn., '66-'70 ; Hendersonville, '66; pastor elect, Aberdeen, 
Md., '70 ; preached at Blair, '70 — ; now at Fallston. 

Rupp F. GiBONs. — From Allentown ; his brothers were in '45 
and '48 ; he early became a farmer in central Illinois. 

John M Godown, Fort Wayne, Ind. — Civil engineer; born in 
Easton, March 25, 1832 ; in college Sophomore and Junioryears ; 
graduated at Washington College, Ya., '49 ; engaged in construc- 
tion of Panama Railroad, and four years First Lieutenant in 
12th Regiment Indiana Infantry ; city clerk of Fort Wayne, '73-7 ; 
now Secretary of Board of State House Commissioners, engaged 
in building new State House at Indianapolis. 

John Foreman Grandin, A.M., M.D., Clinton, N. J. — From 
Clinton ; in class of '50, Freshman and Sophomore ; graduated 
at Union College, '50 ; graduated at Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, '52; received A.M. from Union Col- 
lege, '60. 



192 The Men of Lafayette. 

Edward Horner, A.M., M.P., TurhoiriUc. — From Noitliamii- 
toii county ; in college three years ; graduated at Union, '52 ; 
graduated at Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl. 
A'ania, '55 ; Surgeon 121th Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; 
received A.M. from Lafayette in '06. 

Henry Martyn IIoyt, A.M., Wilkes- Bai-re. — Lawyer; born 
at Kingston, Luzerne county, June 8, 1830; in college Sopho. 
more and Junior years, '4G-8 ; graduated at Williams in '49 ; ad- 
mitted to the bar at Wilkes-Barre, April, '53 ; Lieutenant Colonel 
and Colonel 52d Pennsylvania Eegiment, and Brevet Brigadier 
General U. S. A'olunteers, coniirmed by U. S. Senate, March 13, 
'65 ; received A.M. from Lafayette ad eundem in '65 ; appointed 
additional Law Judge of Luzerne county in '61 ; chairman of the 
Republican State Committee, '16-1 ; in November, -"IS, elected 
Governor of Pennsj'lvania for the term of four years. 

♦George M. Jackson. — From Florence, Alabama, a member 
of the class of '48, in partial course; at the end of Sophomore 
year he went to Princeton, but did not complete his course ; died 
early at Florence. 

George Merrill, A.]\L, Toijcka, Kans. — Lawyer; from New 
Berlin; in college Freshman, Sophomore and Junior, until Sept., 
1848 ; resided at Lewisburg as Register and Recorder of Union 
county, '59; in military service, Major on Gen. L. Merrill's statf ; 
received A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 

♦Aldus J. Neff, A.M. — From Strasburg, Lancaster county ; 
in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; graduated at College 
of New Jersey, '50; resided in Lancaster, '50-'62; Captain in 
Pennsylvania Reserves; died on the Peninsula, Aug. 4, '62. 

Rev. James Pearson, — From Pliiladelphia; in college Fresh- 
man 3'ear; reported to have been a native of L'eland, and to have 
entered the ministry. 

Robert Bruce VwivuK^ii., A.^i.., Huntingdon. — Lawj-er; From 
Muncy; in class of '49, Sophomore year; Major in 5th Pa. In- 
fontry; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66; member of Penn- 
sylvania Senate, '14-1. 



Former Students — 18^6. 193 

William M. Rankin, A.M., M.D., Mimci). — From Mmu-y ; 
in college two jears; in class of '50; graduated at Jellcrson 
Medical College, '51; received A.M. from Lafayette in '6G. 

*James Reiley, A.m., M.D.— Born near Bloomsbury, N. J. ; 
Sophomore and Junior in class of '49; graduated at Union Col- 
lege, '49 ; graduated at Medical Department of University of 
Pennsjdvania, '52; Surgeon in 24th and 31st N. J. Infantry; 
Brigade Surgeon of Army of the Tennessee; practiced at Suc- 
casunna, N. J., where he died, March 23, '72. 

Rev. Watson Russell, Waterford^ Washington Co. Ohio 

Born in Lancaster county. Pa., Nov. 23, 1823; in college Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years ; after which he engaged in teaching 
and in the private study of theology, and was licensed to preach 
in '54; served as a home missionary in his native county until 
'56; preached at Fannettsburg and Burnt Cabins, '5G-8; pastor 
at Clarksburg and Gnatty Creek, Harrison county, W. Ya., until 
tlie breaking out of the rebellion; at Olive, Noble county, Ohio, 
'63-5; in "09, became ^lastor at Decatur, Washington county, 
Ohio, where he remained until '75, and is now without a charge. 

William Wilson SciiuyLEii, Ecu^Loi}. — Lawyer; from Muncy; 
born March 22, 1829; in college Sophomore and Junior; gradu- 
ated at Williams College, '49; admitted to the bar of Northamp 
ton county, April 23, '54, and practiced in Easton since that date, 

^Charles Sergeant, A.M. — Lawyer; born at Sergeantsville, 
Hunterdon county, N. J.; in college Freshman and Sophomore 
years; graduated at college of New Jersey, '50; read law in 
Philadelphia, where he was admitted to the bar in '53 ; and prac 
tieed until his death. May, '68. 

George T. Sergeant, A.M., FhHadelphia. — LaAvyer; born at 
Sergeantsville, N. J. ; brother of the preceding ; in college two 
years, '4G-8 ; graduated at College of New Jerse}^, '50 ; read law 
in Philadelphia, where he was admitted to the bar in '53, and has 
since practiced. 

John Wiggins Simanton, A.M., Harriahurg. — Lawyer ; from 
Hummelstown ; in college two years, '46-8 ; graduated at College 
of New Jersey, '50 ; admitted to the bar atHarrisburg, April 26, 



194 The Men of Lafayette. 

'53 ; practiced for a few years at St. Paul, Minn ; and ever since 
at Harrisburg. 

*RoBERT M. Beatty Steel.— Son of Rev. Dr. Robert Steel of 
Abington ; entered Sophomore class ; drowned while bathing in 
the Delaware, at Easton, June 10, 1847. 

Isaac C. Stewart, A.M., M.D., Bloomsbury^ N. J. — Born in 
Greenwich, Warren county, IST. J,, Feb. 14, 1824 ; prepared for 
college by Rev. J. A. Reile}^ of class of '36 ; in college Sophomore 
and Junior years ; graduated at Union College in '49 ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '66 ; studied medicine under Dr. J. Clyde 
Kennedy, and at the University of Pennsylvania, and graduated 
at Castleton, Vt., in '52 ; and has ever since been in practice at 
Bloomsbury. 

William H, Tomkins. — From Towanda ; in college, '46-8, 
leaving at end of Freshman year ; graduated at Union College ; 
merchant in Illinois ; in '68 removed to California, and not since 
heard from. 

George Banta Van Saun, Cedar Falls, Iowa. — Born near 
Passaic, N. J., Oct. 29, 1831 ; left college at end of Freshman 
year ; for a time engaged in milling and banking ; member of 
Iowa Legislature, 'tl-2; in '78, Grand Commander of Knights 
Templar of Iowa ; now in grain trade. 

John Horner Vincent. — Lawyer ; from McEwensville ; born 
Dec. 2, 1826 ; in college Sophomore and Junior years ; graduated 
at Williams, '49 ; District Attorney of Pike county about '57-8; 
last known residence v/as Dewart, Northumberland county. 

* Jacob Castner Winter, M.D.— From Harmony, N. J.; en- 
tered Sophomore, class of '49 ; graduated at Union College, '49 ; 
graduated at Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, '52 ; died at Mount Pleasant, N. J., Sept. 17, '55, aged 25 ; 
buried at Harmony. 

*Adam=Ishwari Das A student under Professor Nassau's 

special care one year ; known in college as J. Adam ; a native of 
India ; long a teacher in the Mission Schools ; gifted with high 
talent ; in '64 he won the prize of 200 rupees, equal to $100, of- 
fered by the authorities of the city of Barreilly for the best essay 



Former Students — 184.6. 195 

on a great question of social science of India—" The Curtail- 
ment of the Burdensome Expense of Marriage Ceremonies ;" 
again he won a higher mark of distinction in bearing oft" a com- 
petitive prize of 500 rupees ($250), for an essay on Christianity ; 
ordained Jan. 12, '66 ; pastor at Futtehpore, where he died in the 
summer of '67. 

*George Whitfield Ballantine.— Born in Elizabeth, N. J., 
in 1835 ; a student in '46-1 ; civil engineer in Virginia and Cali- 
fornia ; died in 18T0. 

William Alexander Ballantine, New York City. — Lawyer; 
born in Elizabeth, N. J., March 31,1833; brother of the pre- 
ceding ; a student in '46-8; studied law in the office of General 
William L. Morris, and was admitted to the bar Feb., '57 ; he is a 
frequent contributor to the American Chess Journal., and in '76 
won the " Centennial Amateur Chess Prize." 

*Davis Conner. — From Wilmington, Del. ; a student one term ; 
killed in railroad accident at Seaford, Del., in '57. 

David Z. Craver. — From vicinity of Fortress Monroe, Va.; 
a student in '46-7. 

Washington F. De Witt, Harmony, N.J. — From Harmony; 
a student two years ; farmer. 

Alexander P. Fiske. — From Easton ; a student in '46-7 ; 
early removed from Easton. 

Jacob B. Groff, Washington., D. G. — From Strasburg, Lan- 
caster county ; a student one year ; now an advertising agent. 

*Samuel H. Kendig. — Born in Lancaster county, March 4, 
1828; a student one year; then became a farmer in his native 
county, near Lampeter; thence removed to Pikesville, Md. ; en- 
tered the Union army as First Sergeant 6th Md. Regiment ; was 
wounded in the arm and died in McVeigh Hospital, at Alexandria, 
Va., Dec. 18, '63. 

A, Keller Michler, Easton. — From Easton; a student in 
'46-8, and since '48, in mercantile business in Easton. 

Charles, Frederick and Henry W. Seitz. — Born in Easton; 
sons of Frederick Seitz, Sr. ; students in '46-8; engaged with, 
and successors to their father in extensive business as brewers. 



196 The Men of Lafayette. 

Abram Carpenter Smith, A.M., M.D., Bloonn^buivj^ K. J. — 
Born in Greenwich, Warren connt}-, N. J., Dec. 11, 1828 ; at the 
end of Freshman year began medical study ; graduated at Medi- 
cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania, '50 ; practiced 
at Riegelsville and Mauch Chunk for some years, being a school 
director at Mauch Chunk ; was U. S. Pension Examining Surgeon 
in '64-6 ; and on the organization of the Bloomsbur^^ National 
Bank became its Teller ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 

Jeremiah Barker Strader. — Born at Pittsburg, Aug., 1830 -, 
son of Charles Strader ; a student in '46-8 ; died of consumption 
at his home in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 11, '48. [Information 
derived from his sister, Mrs. General Myers, San Francisco.] 

Simpson T. Van Sant. — Law^^er ; from Yardleyville ; a stud- 
ent one term ; then entered Dickinson College ; admitted to the 
bar in Philadelphia, and practiced with marked success until '61, 
when he became insane, and so remains. 

ENTERED IN 184-7. 

Rev. John Armstrong, Fairfield, loica. — President of Parsons 
College ; born at Oxford, Pa,, March 25, 1825 ; in college Soph- 
omore year; graduated at Washington College, Va., '50, and at 
Princeton Theological Seminary, '53 ; preached at Platte City, 
Mo., '53-4 ; at Hazleton, Pa., '54-'64 ; at Muscatine, Iowa, '64- 
'74 ; engaged in organizing Parsons College, '74-5 ; Professor in 
'75-7 ; in June, '77, chosen President; director of Presbyterian 
Theological Seminar}^, Chicago. 

♦Enoch Carroll Brewster. — Lawyer ; on the College records 
entered as a law student ; admitted to the bar of Northampton 
county, Nov. 21, 1848; practiced in Philadelphia, where he be- 
came City Solicitor. 

*Benjamin Franklin Durham. — Prom Tunkhannock ; in 
college. May, '47, to Sept., '48 ; clerk for his uncle in Mahoopany 
until about '57, when he became a sailor ; whaler ; wrecked ; clerk 
for Consul at Honolulu ; then in importing house ; then at San 
Francisco, where he died March 19, '65, aged 34 ; here he was 
with Charles W. Brooks & Co., and noted as an expert in planning 
and inventorying outfits for ships bound on long and distant V03'- 
ages. His brother Albert is now a druggist in Reading. 



Former Students — 184.'/. 107 

Charles Goepp, New York City — Judge of Marine Court ; 
From Bethlehem; entered on the College records as a law student 
under Hon. James M. Porter ; admitted to Northampton county 
bar, Nov. 21, 1848 ; for many 3'ears in practice in New York, and 
a contributor to legal journals ; address is 294 Broadway. 

Rev. Edward Payson Heberton, A.M., Deerjield, N. J. — 
Born at Bath, Pa., Aug. 13, 1831 ; in college Sophomore year, 
'47-8 ; graduated at Princeton, '50 ; studied law two years, and 
theology a year at Princeton Theological Seminary, '53, until 
difficulty with his eyes caused him to go to Cuba ; and thence 
into TJ. S. Coast Survey, where he continued until the war ; then 
was pay-master in U. S. Navy through the war; ordained April 
9, '68, as pastor of Great Valley church, in Chester county ; since 
pastor at Duluth, Minn., Columbus, O., and Deerfield. 

*Rev. Victor Herschell. — Born in Germany ; one of seven 
sons of a Jewish Rabbi, five of whom entered the Christian min- 
istry ; in college Sophomore and Junior ; completed his studies 
in London ; for two years rector in Church of England ; then ■ 
preached at Morant Bay, St. Thomas, Jamaica, until the insur- 
rection in '65, when on Oct. 11, the mob seized him, cut out his 
tongue and beat him to death ; one of 2,000 who then perished ; 
aged about 44 ; a chum, in No. 51, South College, of Rev. I. 
Lowenthall of '48, who also fell by violence in mission service. 

John Coursen Hunt, Syracuse, N. Y. — Lawyer; born at 
Fredon, Sussex count}', N. J., Dec. 7, 1826 ; in college one term 
of Sophomore; studied law at Elmira, N. Y., and was admitted 
to the bar Sept. 1, '51; since '54, at Syracuse; practicing in 
State and L^nited States courts; Major on Gen. Green's staff, 
National Guards, N. Y.; Judge Advocate 24th brigade, '63-'73. 

Rev. Andrew McLenehan Lowry, A.M., Watsontoion, North- 
umberland Co.— From Northumberland county; in college 
Sophomore year; graduated at Washington College, Va., in 
1850; then entered Princeton Theological Seminary and gradu- 
ated in '53; ordained at Port Carbon, Oct. 9, '54, and pastor 
there until '74, and has since resided at Watsontown; received 
A. M. from Lafayette in '66. 

*Rev. Archibald G. Marlatt, A.M. — From Anderson, N. J.; 
senior year at Dickinson College, '48-9; in ministry of the M. E. 



198 The Men of Lafayette. 

church; President of the Irving Female College at Mechanics- 
burg, and there died, Jan. 1, '05. 

Rev. Samuel M. Osmond, D.D., Laxcrence, Kans. — Born at 
Oxford, Pa., Aug. 18, 1825; in college Sophomore year; Junior 
year at Pelawai'e College, '48-9; graduated at College of New 
Jersey, '50 ; then entered Princeton Theological Seminary and 
graduated in '53; preached at Amwell, N. J., '53-7; at Perry, 
111., '5lr-'62 ; pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Iowa 
City, '62-"79; since April, '79, pastor at Lawrence, Kans.; re- 
ceived the degree of D.D. from Iowa State University in '73. 

Shepard Knapp Raymond, A.M., New York City. — In col- 
lege Freshman year ; Sophomore at Washington College, Va. ; 
graduated at Union College '51, and received A.M., '61 ; since 
'51 Receiving Teller in Mechanics' Bank, Wall street. 

*William Redford Sharpe, M.D. — From Belvidere, N. J. ; 
in college Sophomore year ; graduated at Washington College, 
Va., '50 ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College '51 ; studied 
surgery two j-ears in Europe, and became surgeon 15th Regiment 
N. J. Volunteers ; surgeon 1st Division of Sixth Army Corps, in 
the regular army ; served with General Sheridan, who after the 
war sent for him to come from Green Bay, Wis., to New Orleans ; 
went to San Antonio, Texas, where he continued three 3^ears ; 
here he married the daughter of Judge Tunstall; a slight accident 
caused his sudden death, 19th Oct., '74, aged 44. 

Rev. Alexander W. Sproull, A.M., Sag Harbor {L. 7.\ N.Y. 
— Born in Ireland ; in college Sophomore j^ear ; graduated at 
Washington College, Va., '50; then entered Princeton Theological 
Seminary and graduated in'53 ; ordained evangelist b}^ Presb34ery, 
Georgia, Oct., '53; preached at Jacksonville, Florida, '53; Ches- 
ter, Pa., '56, and since '71 at Sag Harbor; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '66. 

Frank G. Umsted. — From Philadelphia ; left at the end of 
Freshman year ; reported to be a farmer in Delaware. 

*Albert Whiton. — From Ithaca, N. Y. ; in college Sopho- 
more 3'ear ; reported to have studied medicine ; resided at George- 
town, D. C, and there died, March 1, '64. 



Former Students — 184.^. 199 

*Maximilian Goepp. — Lawyer ; from Bethlehem ; enrolled as 
a law student with Hon. James M. Porter ; practiced in New 
York city, and there died, May 10, "12, aged 42. 

Louis McLane Hickman, Stanton, Gal. — From Lewes, Del.; a 
student two years ; graduated at College of New Jersey in '52 ; 
of late 3^ears a hardware merchant in California. 

*Ed\vin Housel, — Born in Easton, May 1, 1831 ; in mercantile 
business; in militarj^ service; died at Elizabeth, N. J., Aug. 2, '61. 

*Samuel R. Kessler. — From Easton ; a student one year ; a 
saddler ; died seven years since. 

*G. Alfred Mitchell, M.D.— From Havre De Grace, Md. ; 
a student one j^ear ; graduated at Washington College, Va., '52 ; 
died at Perrymansville, Md., in '57. 

John De La Montanye, Towanda. — Merchant ; from Towan- 
da ; a student one year. 

Samuel N. Murphey.— From Philadelphia ; a student in '47-8: 
reported to be a farmer in Delaware. 

*WiLLiAM OvERFiELD, Jr.— Lawyer; from Monroe county; a 
student one year; slate operator; died in Philadelphia, April 27, 

1872. 

Edmund Ramsey, Easton. — Born in Harmony, N.J. ; a student 
one year ; accountant with Couklin & Co. 

William B. Ribble, A.M., M.D., East Millstone, N. J.— From 
Flatbrookville, N. J. ; a student one year ; taught a year ; grad- 
uated at Berkshire Medical College, Mass., '49 ; received A.M. at 
Lafayette in '66 ; practiced since '58 at East Millstone ; member 
of Medical Society of Somerset county, N. J. 

* Joseph Simmons.— From Lewes, Del.; a student one year; 
was in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1861; joined the Confederate Army; 
was wounded at Bull Run ; and killed at the battle of Franklin, 
Tenn., under Gen. Hood ; aged about 30. 

*Abram Clarkson Smith, M.D. — From Bainbridge, Lancaster 
county ; a student one year ; graduated in medicine at the Uni- 



200 The Men of Lafayette. 

versity of Pennsylvania in '52 ; and lost his life while engaged 
professionally as a volunteer physician in Columbia, during the 
cholera epidemic of '56. 

George William Wagner. — New Market.^ N. J. — Born in 
Easton, Jan. 14, 1837 ; a student in '4*7-8; in military service in 
the 4*7th Pa. Regiment ; by trade a painter, 

*WiLLiAM C. Walter. — Born at Nazareth, July 24, 1829 ; had 
been a student a short time, when he was accidentally shot while 
hunting at Nazareth, Oct. 30, '47, aged 18. 

ENTERED IN 1848. 

Rev. Samuel L. Campbell, Dixmont^ Alleghemj Go. — From 
Uniontown ; in college Sophomore year ; graduated at Jefferson 
College in '50 ; since engaged in teaching. 

* J AMES Ferris Cann, A.M. — Born in Delaware, Sept., 1832 
in college two 3ears ; taught in Wilmington, Del., '52-5, and in 
Savannah, '55-'71 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '65; was 
Superintendent of Public Schools of Savannah ; w-hile on a visit 
to Philadelphia he died, Sept 25, '72. 

William H. Cann, New Castle, Del. — Merchant ; from Glas- [ 
gow, Del.; in college two years ; Sheriff of New Castle county, 
in '65. 

Philip F. Fulmer. A.M., M.D., Dingman''s Ferry, Pike Co. — 
Born at Stewartsville, N. J., June 20, 1830; in college from '48 
to '50 ; studied medicine with Dr. William Wilson at Bethlehem, 
'50-2 ; graduated at Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania in '58 ; Superintendent of Common Schools of 
Pike county, '57-'66 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66 ; now 
practicing medicine and owner and proprietor of a large Summer 
Hotel. 

George Gilbert Gibons, A.M., Chicago, III. — Lawyer; born 
at Allentown, Pa., May 15, 1836 ; in college one year ; began the 
study of law at Allentown in '50, and was admitted to the bar, 
Sept. 4, '54 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66 ; practiced at 
Princeton, 111., twenty years, and since '74 in Chicago. 



Former Students — 184.8. 201 

William Erskine Skinnkh, Hackenaack^ N. J. — Lawyer ; 
born in Glasgow, Scotland, May 17, 1831; his father, the Rev. 
John Skinner, D.D., came to America witli his family in '40, and 
preached first in Lexington, Va., and then in fJaston, and Har- 
mon}'^, N. J.; the son began his course in Washington College, 
Va. ; was in Lafayette two years; received the degree of A.B. 
from Lafayette in '52, and from Princeton in '53; taught in New 
Jersey and Easton, '50-3; in i'hiladelphia, '53; Natchez, Miss., 
'54-T ; was admitted to the bar at Natchez in '51, and to the bar 
of New Jersey in '60; he has held various legaL offices, among 
them United States Circuit Court Commissioner, and since Feb., 
'7 8, has been President Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, 
for Bergen county. 

Lewis De Pui Vail, A.M., Fhiladelphia. — Lawyer; born at 
Stroudsburg, March 17, 1832; entered Freshman, second term; 
left at end of Sophomore, and graduated at Princeton in '51 ; 
taught at Stroudsburg until '56, when he commenced the study 
of law in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the bar March 8, '58. 

Rev. Robert Watts, D.D., Belfast, Ireland. — Born in the 
townland of Moneylane, County Down, Ireland; prepared at the 
Training School for National Teachers, Dublin, and Royal 
Academy, Belfast; taught from '41-7; entered Junior at Lafay- 
ette, and Senior year at Washington College, Va., graduating in 
'49; graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary, '52; he 
preached in the Franklin Hose Hall, Philadelphia, and May 4, 
'53, was ordained pastor of the Westminster church, there 
gathered; Assistant Secretary of Board of Education in '60; 
pastor in Dublin, March, '63, to Oct., '66; since that date Pro- 
fessor of Systematic Theology in the Assembly's College, Bel- 
fast; while in Dublin, was Chaplain to the Mt. Joy Male Prison; 
received D.D. from Westminster College, Mo. 

Edward Welles, A.M., Wilkes-Barre. — Born at Wyalusing, 
Jan. 30, 1832; entered preparatory course in May, '48, and at 
the end of Freshman j'ear, in Sept., '49, went to Williams Col- 
lege, where he spent Sophomore and Junior years ; was for some 
years a valetudinarian, and afterward engaged in general business 
and agriculture on his father's estate until his retirement in '71 ; 

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202 The Men of Lafayette. 

has since lived in Wilkes-Barre, devoted to books ; received de- 
gree of A.M. from Lafayette in '71. 

Samuel R. Briggs. — From Lehigliton ; a student in '48 ; his 
family now reside in Camden, N. J. 

*Walter Scott Briggs. — Born at Weymouth Iron Works, 
Atlantic county, N. J., Sept., 1836 ; brother of the preceding ; a 
student in '48 ; studied law in Philadelphia until the war, when 
he enlisted in the 1st Delaware Infantry, where he served three 
months, and then joined the 27th Pennsylvania Infantry ; in Jan., 
'62, he was promoted to a Lieutenancy, and in Sept., Adjutant of 
the Regiment ; while leading his men at Gettysburg, July 2, '63, 
he was shot by the enemy ; interred in the National Cemetery. 

* John L. Davis. — From Deerfield, N. J.; a student in '48; 
located in business in Richmond, Ind., where he died, Nov., 1860. 

William C. Long. — 'A student one term; from Cheraw, S. C. 
The postmaster informs me that no one of the name is now known 
there ; a 3'oung man named Cliarlton Long, residing there, died 
many years since, (say in 1855). 

Joseph F. McClellan, Wheatland Furnace, Mercer Co. — Iron 
manufacturer; from West Chester; a student one term. 

Robert M. McClellan, A.M., West CAes^^r.— Teacher ; from 
West Chester ; a student one term ; graduated at Yale College, 
'66 ; taught in Savannah, Ga., '66-'66 ; in Confederate military 
service ; since '66, Principal of McClellan Institute at West 
Chester. 

*Charles H. Plummer,. — From Canton, Salem county, N. J. ; 
a student one term ; engaged in farming in Canton, where he died 
early. 

John Marshall Sherwood, Fhiladelphia. — From German 
Valley, N. J. ; a student one year; admitted to Northampton 
counter bar, April 29, '53 ; early in '55 he removed to Marshall- 
town, Iowa, and was in business there for some years, and then 
removed to Philadelphia, where he still resides. 

ENTERED IN 184-9. 

Hugh Douglass McLean, M.D., Philadelphia. — -Born at 
Mauch Chunk, June 20, 1832; in class of '53, from '49 to '52; 



Former Students — 184^. 203 

left in Junior year; graduated at Jellerson Medical College, '54; 
Assistant Surgeon 106th Regiment Pa, Volunteers, '62-3; mem- 
ber of Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 

Kev. IloiJEET IIamill Nashau, A.m., M.D., Gaboon, Went 
Africa. — Born at Montgomery Square, Pa., Oct., 1835; in col- 
lege Freslunan year; graduated at Princeton College in '54; 
studied medicine at University of Pennsylvania ; missionary in 
West Africa since July, '61 ; autlior of '' Crowned in Palm 
Land," pp. 390, 1874. 

*Jamks D. Bennett. — From Erwinna, Bucks county; a student 
one year; Secretary of Ilellertowii Iron Company; died at Hel- 
lertown, March, 1870. 

William Henby Cuetis, Decorah, Iovm. — Farmer; born at 
Cochecton, Sullivan county-, N. Y., April 9, 1826; a student in 
'49-'50; merchant and lumberman ; was Supervisor of Cochecton 
'50-3, and '57-9; Justice of the Peace, Cochecton, '50-4; post- 
master at Callicoon, '51-'61; Sheriff of Sullivan county, '58-'61; 
Assistant Assessor of Internal Revenue, '62-6; Supervisor of 
Delaware, N. Y., '70-3 ; now farming in Iowa. 

*JoiiN KooNs, — From Reading; a student in '49-'50 ; located 
in Lambertville, X. J.; during the war he was in Company A, 
3d N. J. Cavalry; afterward in machine shops at Lambertville, 
where he died, of dropsy, Feb. 1, '79, aged 51. 

Samuel B. Lewis, Allentovm A special student in Mathe- 
matics one 3^ear; for many years manager of the AUentown Iron 
Works, and in '78, Superintendent. 

*Petee Ruth. — Born Nov. 8, 1825; in special course one 
year; resided in Easton, and died, April 28, '75. 

Geoege Swift. — From Easton; engaged in varied professional 
and business life in Tennessee and Missouri, and now manu- 
facturing machinery in the latter State. 

ENTERED IN 1850. 

♦William M, McKeen. — From Philadelphia; in the war he 
was First Lieutenant of Company K, 118th Regiment Pa. Vol- 
unteers, in service from Aug., '62, to March, '63; wounded in 



204 The Men of Lafayette. 

tho battle :it Shephenlstown, W. Va,, Sept. 20, '(52; cotton 
manufacturer at Soutli Easton, and tlierc died, May 26, '72. 

Joseph B. Cougle, llamden^ Hunterdon Co., N. J.— Merchant ; 
a student one term. 

Amos M. Hart, liingoei^^ N. J. — From Pennington, N. J.; a 
pliysician at Ringoes. 

Israel Hart, A.M., M.D., Pennington.^ N. J. — From I*enning- 
ton ; graduated at Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, '53 ; late Surgeon of the 35th N. J. Regiment ; ro- 
ceived A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 

Washington Opdyke, M.D., 1451 North \olJi, St.., Philadelphia, 
— Druggist ; from IJethlehem, N. .] . ; a stud(!nt from May to 
Sept., '50. 

Gen. Theophilus Fuancis Rodenhough, New York City. — 
Born in Easton, Nov. 5, 1838; a student two years; in mercan- 
tile life until he was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the 2d 
Regiment of U. S. Dragoons, March 23, '61 ; Brevet Major in '64, 
" for gallant conduct at the battle of Opequan, Va.," where he 
lost his right arm ; Colonel of the 18th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
April 29, '65 ; Brevet Brigadier General U. S. Army, March 13, 
'65 ; retired from active service, Dec. 15, "70, with full rank of 
Colonel of Cavalry, on account of wounds received in the line of 
duty. [For full biography, see his work " From Everglade to 
Canon with the Second Dragoons, 1836-"r5,"561 pp., royal 8vo.] 
Assistant General Superintendent Pullman Car Company, '72-4 ; 
and assistant editor of the Army and Navy Journal, '76-7; I'e- 
sides at 620 Fifth Avenue. 

Uriel Titus Scudder, Trenton., N. J. — From Pennington, N. 
J. ; a student one vear ; wholesale merchant and also farmer. 



Former Students — 18^4. 205 

Note.— The Preparatory Department being discontinued in the autumn of 1850, the names 
in the remainder of this work arc placed in the classes which they entered ; and unless the 
contrary is expressed, it is to he understood that they entered college at the Ijcgiiining of Fresh- 
man year. 

CLASS OF 1854. 

^TiiOMAsJ.r. Dkvou. — From Cliainbersburg; in college 185 1-2; 

died early. 

Alfred lioLiVAii Miller, A.M., TFarren. — Born at Kattelville, 
Broome county, N. Y., April 3, 1881 ; in college Sophomore 
year; graduated at Yale in '55; taught at Groton, Mass., '55; 
Binghamton, '57 ; Lane Academy, 'G5 ; Tutor in Yale, '08; and 
at AVarren, Pa., since '74. 

* Joseph K. Sample, M.D. — From Philadelphia; in college, 
'51-2; became a Surgeon in tlie regular aimy ; was stationed at 
Fort Porter, Buffalo, and in Oregon ; died at Fort Vancouver in 

'68. 

John Van Name, Tioga. — Merchant; from Binghamton, N.Y.; 
in college Sophomore and Junior years. 

CLASS OF 1855. 

^^'James Siiippen Burd. — Lawyer; born at Duncanville, Blair 
county. Pa., Sept. 11, 1835; Sophomore in Jefferson College; 
Junior in LafVij^ette; then entered Union Law School at Easton; 
admitted to the bar of Northampton county Aug. 18, '57 ; ceased 
practice on account of throat disease, and engaged in business at 
Minneapolis, Minn., from Nov., 'GO, until his death there, Dec. 
Ifj, '7G; buried at Shippensburg, his early home. 

*James M. Dorrance. — Born at Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 10, 183G; 
entered Sophomore, and died at home in his Senior year, March 
22, '55, aged 18. 

Rev. Horatio Graham Finney, Milton. — From McEwens- 
ville, Northumberland county ; in college from Sept., '52, to 
July, '54; graduated at University of New York, '55; studied 
theology at Reformed Presbyterian Seminar}^ in Philadelphia, 
and then two years at Princeton Theological Seminary, and 
graduated in '59 ; pastor of Lycoming Centre church, at Cogan's 
Station, until 75, and since, of Chillisquaque church, near 
Milton. 



206 The Men of Lafayette. 

Robert Agnew Futhey, Parkesburg. — From Chester county; 
in college Sophomore year; Superintendent of Schc/ols of 
Chester coiint^^, 1854-t ; since '75, Cashier of the Parkesburg 
Bank. 

* James Johnston Herron. — Lawyer; born at Newville, Pa., 
Sept. 21, 1835; one year in Jefferson; then in Lafayette, '53-4; 
studied at Albany Law School ; admitted to the bar, Dec, '57 ; 
an efl'ective advocate, of large practice; member of Illinois' 
Legislature, in his second term at the time of his death, which 
occurred Feb. 1st, '78, at his home, Princeton, 111. 

*Thomas Hood McCormick. — Son of Saul McCormick, of 

Mill Hall, Clinton county, a Trustee in '53-7 ; Captain in the 

4th Regiment, U. S. Cavalry, and died soon after the end of the 
late war. 

*Thomas Chalmers Pollock, M.D. — Only son of Dr. Sam'l 
Pollock; in college two years, '53-5; he died at his home in 
Williamsport, Pa., Dec, '69. 

*Stacy G. Potts, Jr. — From Trenton, N. J. ; in class of 
1855, Junior year; received A.B., honoris causa, at College of 
New Jersey, '57 ; died at Trenton in '58. 

Edward Clarence Smith, M.A,, Philadelphia. — Son of the 
late Rev. Charles A. Smith, D.D., of Easton, and nephew of 
Prof. E. Lasell, of Williams College; was born at Palatine, 
N. y., May 13, 1835; in Sophomore year entered Williams Col- 
lege, and graduated in '56 ; studied law in Philadelphia, and 
afterward spent two years in Union Theological Seminary, '60-2 ; 
and since '65, has been Principal of Rugby Academy, in Phila- 
delphia. 

Samuel B. Smith, Dayton, Ohio. — Lawyer; born at Troy, 
Ohio, Sept. 4, 1836; in Sophomore class second term ; Junior year 
at Jefferson ; studied law in his father's office at Dayton, and 
was admitted to the bar May 2, '60; First Lieutenant in 11th 
Ohio Regiment in '61; from '62 to '65 served as Captain and 
Major of 93d Ohio Regiment, and participated in every battle in 
which the Army of the Cumberland engaged ; in legal practice 
since '65 ; since '75 has been Colonel of the 4th Regiment Ohio 



Former StKdcnts — /^'jj. 207 

National Guard, and President of the Dayton, Covington and 
Toledo Narrow-guage Railroad. 

Douglass Stirling, Baltimore^ Md. — Lawyer; in college in 
Junior j^ear. 

Isaac J. Stine. — From Webster's Mills ; in college Sophomore 
and Junior years. 

*Edward a. Wharton. — Born at Huntingdon, Jan. 14, 1835; 
prepared at Milnwood. Academy; entered Freshman class, March, 
'62; Died at college in his Junior year, August 1, '54, aged 19. 
[Memorial sermon by Prof. Burrowes, published by the Wash- 
ington Literary Society.] 

Henry Kirke White. — From Cumberland, Md.; in college 
Sophomore year. 

CLASS OF 1856. 

♦Clinton M. Andrews, A.B — From Greensboro, N. C; en- 
tered Sophomore and left in Senior j^ear; bank cashier at Sum- 
merville, N. C; Major in Confederate service; died of wounds 
received in battle, August, '64. His son, C. N. Andrews, gradu- 
ated in '76. 

* Charles Cox Ellis From Williamsport; in class of '56 

from March, '53, to March, '55 ; died at his home in vacation, 
August, '55. 

*Adolphiis Henry Epstein. — Born in Pesth, Hungary, Dec. 
25, 1826 ; at the age of six he began the study of Hebrew; at ten 
he entered the Gymnasium to study Latin, and then became a 
student in the Polytechnic Institute of Vienna; was three years 
in a mercantile house in Pesth ; in consequence of the political 
troubles in Hungary he came to the United States, and taught 
in Blairstown, N. J., '50-1 ; was in Lafayette, '52-4 ; and a 
teacher in Columbia, S. C, and also a student in the Theological 
Seminar}' in the same place, from Sept., '54, until his death, 
March 30, '56. He married Miss Elizabeth Dithmar, of Easton. 

*Edward H. Green, Easton. — Born in Easton; in college 
Sophomore and Junior j^ears ; engaged in iron manufacture ; 
President of Easton and South Easton Passenger Railway, and of 
Town Council, 1873 ; died Jan. 27, '79, aged 41. 



208 The Men of Lafayette. 

* J AMES T. Jordan. — From McConnellsburg, Fulton county ; 
in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; law in view ; died 
early, before reaching his profession. 

*VanLear Perry, M.D. — From Cumberland, Md.; in college 
two years ; graduated at Franklin and Marshall College in '56; 
and at the Jeflf'erson Medical College in '59 ; was in the Confed- 
erate service; died at Mobile, Ala., in '71. 

*Nathan D. Shoemaker. — Farmer ; born in Wyoming Valley, 
Dec, 1835 ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; died 
July 6, '62 ; buried at Forty Fort; 

David W. Stewart, Warrior''^ Mark^ Huntingdon county. — 
Received from Jeft'erson College in Sept., '53 ; in college Sopho- 
more year ; engaged in iron business. 

*JoHN M. Sullivan. — Born in Ireland ; entered Sophomore ; 
a candidate for the ministry ; resided at Huntingdon, where he 
died just before graduation. May 3, '56, aged 27. 

George W. Swing, Fincland, N. J.— Born near Daretown, N. 
J. ; in college one term ; taught several j^ears ; in '62 he entered 
the army and became Captain of Company H, 12th N. J. Regi- 
ment; of late years has resided at Yineland. 

CLASS OF 1857. 

William Apgar, Neio York City. — Lawyer ; born at Mt. 
Pleasant, Hunterdon county, N. J., Nov. 10, 1830 ; after one 
term in Freshman 3^ear, went to Union College; began to read 
law Nov., '55, in the office of TenBroeck and VanOrden, N. Y. ; 
admitted to the bar in N. Y. Dec. 18, '57, and there practiced 
ever since ; counsellor and Notary Public, 187 Greenwich Street. 

Samuel Abner Apple, Lake Maho2)ac, N.Y. — Born in Easton, 
Aug. 26, 1838; in college through Freshman, Sophomore and 
Junior years; taught, '56-'61 ; served through the war; First 
Sergeant Company B, 51st Regiment Pa. Volunteers; since 
'65, farmer. 

*George H. Bender. — Manufacturer; born in Easton, Feb. 
5,1838; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; a leather 
manufacturer in Easton until the year before his death, when he 



Former Students — iS^y. 209 

obtained a position in the U. S. Mint in Philadelphia, and there 
died, Dec. 5, '17. 

Jesse Howell Crane, Oakland, OaZ.— Merchant ; born in 
Easton, June 23, 1839; in special course, March, '54, to March, 
'55; in '55 he went with his father to Kansas, and immediately 
served in the Topeka Guards, Kansas Volunteers, November and 
December, '55, "in defending the city of Lawrence from demoli- 
tion by foreign invaders;" sutler at Fort Larned, Kans., until 
'65; resided at Topeka, '65-"73; and since, in mercantile busi- 
ness at 11 Drumm street, San Francisco. 

William Smiley Everett, A.M., Chicago, III. — Lawyer; 
born at Fannettsburg, Franklin county, June 22, 1832; at Jeffer. 
son College through Sophomore; Junior at Lafayette; admitted 
to the bar at Chambersburg, in Aug., '5T; District Attorney of 
Franklin county. Pa., '66-8; also, at St. Joseph, Mo., '69-'70; 
received A.M. from Jefl'eison College in '60, and from Lafayette 
in '65; admitted to Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, '65; Su- 
preme Court of Missouri, '70; United States Supreme Court, 
Oct., '74; Supreme Court of Illinois, '77; declined appointment 
of United States District Attorney for Western District of Mis- 
souri in '73; also L^'ceum lecturer. 

Joseph Robinson Findley, St. Louis, Mo. — Lawyer ; from 
Frankstown, Blair county; in college Sophomore and part of 
Junior year; in the war he was Captain in 49th Regiment Pa. 
Volunteers ; distinguished at the storming of Fort Wagner ; law- 
yer, conve^ancei' and in mercantile business at 324 N. Third 
sti'eet, St. Louis. 

Robert Foster Hayes, A.M., M.D., FreepoTt, III. — Born at 
Mifflinburg, Union county, in 1822; Freshman yearat University 
of Lewisburg ; in college Sophomore year ; graduated at Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '58 ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '65. 

*Henry Martvn Kennedy. — Born at Stewartsville, N. J., 
Sept. 21, 1836 ; son of Judge R. S. Kennedy, a Trustee of La- 
faj'ette; in college Sept., '54, to Dec, '55, Sophomore and a 
part of Junior year, when attacked by hemorrhage of the lungs, 
and died at his birthplace, Dec. 15, '57. A youth of great promise. 



'-^10 The Men of Lafayette. 

Samiki, Smith, Cumberland^ jrc/.— Lawyer ; born at Cuiubor- 
lami, Fob. 10, 18^7; in oollogc Freshman year ; iSopUoniore at 
.Tofterson : aduiittod to the bar of AUegany county, Md., '50, ami 
practiced two years, when failure ol" eyesight eouipelled him to 
abandon i>rofessional life. 

A. .1. Wkrnt/, Donaldsonville, SchuylUll Co. — In college 
Sophomore year ; and has since been continui>usly engaged in 
teaching. 

CLASS OF 1S5S. 

William liivixosTON Alukn. A.^l., Xcic York City. — Jour- 
nalist: born at Williamstown, Mass. 1838 : he left Tiafayette in 
Junior year. o\\ his father's election to the rresideuey o\^ .letVer- 
sou College, wIumv he graduated in "58; ho then studied law in 
the oflice of Hon. AVillianv M. Evarts, and was admitted to the 
bar of Xew York city in May. "00: practiced thereuntil "00 ; has 
since been connected with severa4 newspapers, iueludiug the 
Neic 3 or/' World., Orn})hic.i and now the Th)U\^ : author of 
" Shooting Stars observed from the Sixth Coluuui of the N. Y. 
Itmc,'^, 1878,"" 

Rev. William Alv.xanulr. 1),1>.. Ootlovd. Col. — Entered 
Sophomore from Shirleysburg, Pa. : went with Trofessor Alden 
to .Tetfersiui Ot>llege, April, "57, and graduated in "58; graduated 
at Princeton Theological Seminary, "01 ; ordained at Lycoming, 
Pa., Juno 10, 'C>2 ; pro.ichcd at "Waukesha, "Wis., '63, and at Beloit 
ill 05 ; President of Carroll College, Wis., '05 : pastor at Sau 
Joso, Cal., '09; President City College, San Francisco, "71-4 ; 
received degree of 1>.1\ from Carroll College in '75; pastor .at 
Centreville, Cal., "75-7 : author of the Overture to the Synod 
that resulted in founding the San Francisco Theological Semi- 
nary, in which he has been a Professor from its origin. 

Jonx K. Baldwin, Morristou^n. X. J. — From I>ancaster; left 
college at'ond of Sophomore year; has been engaged in mercan- 
tile business in Brooklyn and Xew York. 

JosEvn K. BruKE, Easton. — Son of John J. Burke, a Trustee 
from 18o7 to "5i2 ; in college part of Freshman year; removed to 
Philadelphia; in the war he was in military service in the 15th 
Uegiment of Pennsylvania Cavalry, known as the Anderson 
Troop, recruited in Philadelphia : has since resided in Easton. 



Forma- Students— 1858. 211 

Isnwm Coombs, Daretotcm, N. J. — Teacher ; born in Pittsgrove 
township, N. J., Oct. 3, 1834 ; in college, Sept., '55, to July, 'SO; 
and has since taught, and at times farmed. 

l\(Uu:i!.T MiiA) Cooi'EU, 0,<I)ornc, Kansas. — Farmer; born at 
Yeagertown, Milllin county. Pa., Feb. 1, 1835; in college Fresh- 
man 3'ear ; the first married of his class, Dec, '57 ; taught; was 
.lustice of the Peace at Fairview, N. J.; engaged in an import- 
ing house in Philadelphia; for 15 months a private in 183d I'a. 
Volunteers; farmed near licwistown. Pa., from '57 to '78, and then 
located with his six sons in Kansas. 

♦William B. Downey. — Editor ; from Maryland ; in college 
a part of Freshman year; became editor of the Loudoun Repuh- 
//(■«/), and died at Loudoun Mills, Va., March 9, '73, aged '30. 

Kkv. Samuel L. (Jamhle, A.M., Albany., N. Y. — Born in 
Franklin county. Pa.; Sophomore and Junior at Tiafayette ; 
graduated at Jell'erson College '58; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary '01 ; pastor at New Scotland, N. Y.; then at 
Stillwater, N. Y., '08-'70; and now of Reformed Dutch church at 
(^uilderland, near Albau}- ; received A.M. ad eunde))), fronv La- 
fayette in '75. 

Henry W. Grundeb. — A German ; from Grove, in Western 
Xcw York, the post-olHce at that place being now discontinued. 
He was prepared for college with Dr. Marsh, by Rev. H. Arm- 
strong, of class of '48 ; in college a part of Freshman year. 

Samuel Holland Hackett, Amelia C. H.^Va. — Naval officer 
and farmer; born in Easton, Pa., March 22, '40; in college Fresh- 
man year; then at IT. S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, '55-9; 
for some years a naval officer, and since '71 farmer at Amelia. 

William ITahkness, M.D., LT^.D., Naval Observatory.^ Wash- 
ington^ J). C— Born at Ecclefechan, Scotland, Dec. 17, 1837 ; in 
college from Sept , '54, to Jan., '50, when, his father becoming 
pastor of a chuich in Rochester, he entered the University in that 
city, graduating in '58; received A.M. atZ e(f/)(7e»i from Lafayette 
in '05 ; he made the address at the laying of the corner stone of 
the Astronomical Observatory in '04; after the study of medicine 
in New York, and an engagement as a mechanical engineer at 
Yonkcrs, he entered the scientific service of the Government in 



212 The Men of Lafayette. 

'61, and since August, '62, has been attached to the Naval Ob- 
servatory; served as a surgeon on the second Bull Run battle- 
field, and in the forts during the attack on Washington in '64; 
he has passed through the naval grades of Professor of Mathe- 
matics and Lieutenant-Commander, '63 ; Commander, '72 ; Cap- 
tain, April 16, '78; he discovered the "1474" line in the solar 
corona during the eclipse of August 7, '69 ; designed numerous 
astronomical instruments; author of Monographs on Magnetism 
and Astronomy ; a member of the United States Transit of Yenus 
Commission from its origin; in '74-5 in charge of the Transit of 
Venus Expedition to the Cape of Good Hope ; in Oct., '78, he 
received the bronze medal offered b}- the National Rifle Associa- 
tion ; he received LL.D. from Rochester University in '74, and 
is a member of several scientific societies. 

Joseph R. Hixson, A.M., Boston^ Mass.—Vyom. Springtown, 
N. J.; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; in mercantile 
business in Jerse3' Cit}- and New York some years ; then taught 
in New Brunswick, N.J. ; since '72 in railroad business; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '74; General Agent of Chicago, Milwau- 
kee and St. Paul Railway, at 228 Washington street, Boston. 

John Lanninci, Wilkes-Barre.-^^AixnwfixQinvQV of machinery ; 
in college three j'^ears ; graduated at Union College, '58. 

Hiram Long, A.M., M.D., Sunbury. — Born in Northampton 
county, April, 1831 ; in college through Freshman and Sopho- 
more years ; studied medicine in New York City, '56-9 ; Surgeon 
in 205th Pa.,, and Assistant Surgeon 173d Pa. Infantry ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette in '64 ; practiced at Mt. Bethel, Hartleton, 
and since '72 at Sunbury. 

Rev. Newell Samuel Lowrie, Goj-ham, N. Y. — Born at 
Jersey town, Montour county, Pa., Jan. 27, 1832 ; Sophomore 
and part of Junior year at Lafaj^ette ; Senior at Jefferson Col- 
lege, where he graduated in '58 ; studied theology at Western 
Theological Seminary, '58-'60, and at Princeton, '60-1 ; preached 
at Conneautville seven years, and since '68 at Gorham, Ontario 
count}', N. Y. 

*Edwin Washington Marsh, A.M., M.D. — Physician ; born 
at Bethany, Genesee county, N. Y., Feb. 22, 1831 ; in college 



Former Students — 18^8. 213 

Freshman and half of Sophomore year; taught in Kentucky and 
Tennessee, '56-'62 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66 ; studied 
medicine under a preceptor, and graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of Universitjf of Buffalo in '66 ; he was a member of the 
Medical Society of Genesee county ; practiced at Corfu and 
Darien until his death, Jan. 4, '77 ; his family reside in Buffalo, 

William Ross Mateer, Fort Defiance^ New Mexico. — From 
Shippensburg; in college Sophomore year ; Professor of Mathe- 
matics in St. Charles College, Mo., in '66-9; in book trade in 
St. Louis ; since '76, Indian Agent for the Pueblos, Aztecs, of 
New Mexico. 

John Angle Raub, A.M.,M.D., Philadelphia,— ^oyw at Blairs- 
town, N. J., March 15, 1835; in college Freshman and part of 
Sophomore year; graduated at Medical Department of University 
of Pennsj'lvania, '62; received A.M. from Lafayette in '64; for 
some years Vice President of Medical Society of Northampton 
county; office at 927 N. Tenth street. 

Chester Butler VanSyckel, A.M., Flemington, N. J. — 
Lawyer; born in Union, Hunterdon county, N. J., June 6, 1838; 
in college Freshman and Sophomore years; graduated at College 
of New Jersey, '59; admitted to the bar Nov. 5, '63; Commis- 
sioner of the Supreme Court of N. J. [Biographical Annals of 
New Jersey.] 

CLASS OF 1859. 

James Cochran Annan, Emmittsburg^ Md. — Merchant; from 
Emmittsburg ; in college three years, '55-8 ; in U. S. Volunteers 
during the war. 

Robert Donaldson, Jr. — From Barrytown, Dutchess county, 
N. y. ; in college through Freshman, and a part of Sophomore 
year ; no recent information received. 

William Forsythe Fisher, A.M., M.D., St. Paul, Minn. — 
Born at Natchitoches, La.; in college Freshman and Sophomore 
years ; graduated in medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., '61 ; surgeon 
in U. S. Volunteers three years during the war; practiced medi- 
cine and was Examining Pension Surgeon in Ozaukee, Wis., sev- 
eral years ; now at St. Paul ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '66. 



214 The Men of Lafayette, 

*PowHATAN Harris.— Died at his home in Richmond, Va., in 
vacation, after completing his Freshman j^ear, Aug., '56. 

"^William Nicholson Grier Hibler. — Lawyer; from Wilkes- 
Barre ; in college '55-6; died in Philadelphia, Nov. 9, "16, aged 
41 ; he was United States Commissioner and a successful practi- 
tioner at the Philadelphia bar. 

Henry Daniel Laciienour, M.D., Easton. — From Easton ; in 
college Freshman and Sophomore years; graduated at Jefferson 
Medical College, 1859, and has since been in continuous practice 
in Easton. 

Rev. William Alfred McAtee, A.M., Danville. — Born in 
Smithsburg, Md., June 25,1838; Freshman and Sophomore at 
Lafayette ; graduated at College of New Jersey, '59 ; studied 
Theology in Danville, K3^, '59-'61 ; Princeton Theological Serai- 
nary '61-3; licensed to preach April 13, '61 ; Tutor of Rhetoric 
in College of New Jersej^, '61 ; preached at Hagerstown, Alexan- 
dria, Ya., and Danville. 

John Henry Mein, Philadelphia. — Born in Philadelphia, Aug. 
11,1839; in college Freshman year ; since Jan. 1, '60, engaged 
in wholesale dry goods business, and now at 1417 North Broad 
Street. 

James Boyd RoBisoN, A.M., BlooiiD^hurg. — Law3^er; born at 
Bloomsburg, Jan. 3, 1838; in college Freshman and Sophomore 
3^ears ; taught; read law until '61, when he became Captain of the 
35th Pennsylvania Infantry ; served through all the war ; and 
was in Libby prison, '64-5 ; admitted to the bar, Nov., '63 ; Dis- 
trict Attorney of Mercer county, '65-6 ; Notar}^ Public in St. 
Louis, Mo., '66 ; and at Bloomsburg since '67; received A.M. 
from Lafa^^ette in '66. 

William Newton Symington, Neio York City. — Born in 
Washington, D. C, June 10, 1841 ; in college, '55-7; graduated 
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in '61 ; studied at the Uni- 
versity of Gottingen, '61, and Royal Saxon Mining Academy, 
Freiberg, '62-3 ; in the service of the Confederate States ; and 
since '66, engineer in charge and consulting engineer for various 
railroad, mining and manufacturing companies in Virginia, Mis- 



Foinner Students — i8jQ. 215 

souri, Colorado, and \\\ Xew York ; member of the American In- 
stitute of Mining Engineers, 

Joseph Hudson Wardin, Nevada^ Vernon Co,, Mo. — Born in 
Columbia county, Pa. ; in college parts of Freshman and Sopho» 
more years ; taught in Pennsylvania and Missouri, '5T-'63 ; su- 
perintendent of a manufacturing company in Kansas, '63-8 ; since 
then farming and stock raising in Missouri. 

* William Watson, A.M., M.D. — Born at Bedford; of a med- 
ical family, his father and grandfather — of the same name — having 
been his direct predecessors in a practice continuing through 74 
years, until his death at Bedford, March 13, '79, aged 41 ; in col- 
lege two years, '55-7 ; graduated at the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania in '61 ; Surgeon of the 145th Pa. 
Regiment, and also Division Surgeon : received A.M. from La- 
fayette in '66. 

Rev. William Alfred Wurts, A.M., Ganastota, N. Y. — From 
Philadelphia ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; student 
at the Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, '57-8, when he relin- 
quished his purpose of becoming a civil engineer, and studied 
theology at New Brunswick, N. J., graduating in '62 ; licensed in 
'62; ordained at Canastota, April, '63; pastor of Canastota Re- 
formed church, '63-8 ; stated supply of Vernon Presbyterian 
church, '68-'71 ; pastor of Lj'sander Reformed church, '71-6; 
stated supply of Canastota Reformed church since '77 ; received 
A.M. from I^afayette in '74. 

CLASS OF 1S60. 
Daniel Harrison Appich, Alexandria, Va. — Born in Alexan- 
dria, Oct. 7, 1839; in college '56-8, and has ever since been in 
mercantile business at Alexandria. 

Samuel Butz, Easton. — Merchant; born in Easton ; commis- 
sion merchant in 1868 with S. B. Green & Co., New York; for 
some years in wholesale commission house in New York ; now 
proprietor of furnishing store in Easton. 

William Gaston Donaldson, Bamjtoicn, Dutchess Co., N.Y. 
— From Barrytown; born April 3, 1840; in college Freshman 
year; graduated at Williams in class of '60; studied law in New 
York; no recent information. 



216 The Men of Lafayette, 

Isaac Smith Eilenberger, Philadelphia. — Railroad agent ; 
laorn in Mt. Bethel ; brought up in Easton ; in college through 
Freshman year; studied for two 3'ears afterward with Dr.Wheeler, 
Patterson, N. Y.; private in 5th Pa. Volunteers; ticket agent of 
Lehigh Valley Railroad at Easton, 1865-"I4; in ticket depart- 
ment of Penns^'lvania Railroad, at Philadelphia, since "17. 

*JoHN Randolph Hilton. — Born at Bloomsbury, N. J., May 
4, 1835; left college at thcend of Sophomore 3'ear, and entered 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, where he studied about 
two years ; Assistant Surgeon 15th N. J. Regiment from the fall 
of '62 until his death, at White Oak Church, Va., March 17, '63; 
buried at Belvideve, N. J., where his monument was erected by 
his regiment, 

Edward Thomas Kennedy, Greenfield^ Dade Co., Mo. — Born 
at Belvidere, N. J., May 26, 1839; in college through Freshman 
year; served in the Army of the Potomac as Captain of Com- 
pany C, 11th N. J. Infantry, fron:i Api'il, '62, to Aug , '64, when 
he was honorably discharged, because of wounds received at the 
battle of the Wilderness; druggist at Bridgeton, N. J., '66-'76, 
when he removed to Missouri. 

Henry William Long, Englishtoivn, N. J. — Born at Hughes- 
ville, Warren county, N. J., Jan. 31, 1839; in college from Sept., 
'56, to July. '58, and has since been in mercantile and insurance 
business; served in the Arm^' of the Potomac during the war. 

*Seth Stephen Lounsbery, A.M., M.D.— From Bedford, N.Y.; 
in college Freshman year; Surgeon in 155th N. Y. Infantry, and 
Colonel of a New York Regiment in the war; received A.M. 
from Lafayette in 1866; died at Bedford, April, '72. 

William White Moon, Easton. — Merchant; born in Easton ; 
in college one year; clerk for the Glendon Iron Co.; private in 
38th Pa. Militia, and since 1875 in mercantile business. 

Robert Mercer Parker, Philadelphia. — Born at Media, Dec, 
1838 ; in college Freshman year ; taught in Illinois in '58 ; farmed 
three years ; in California ; enlisted in 2d Mass. Cavalry, and 
after three years in service mustered out as First Lieutenant in 
5th Mass. Cavalry ; for the last ten years a shipper of coal in 
Philadelphia, 324 S. Fifteenth street. 



Former Students — 1860. 2 It 

♦Joseph Patterson. — Civil engineer ; from Pound Ridge, 
Westchester county, N. Y. ; in college Freshman, Sophomore and 
Junior years; died at Bedford, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1872, aged 33 
years. 

^'Stephen Story Y^'ates. — Born in Port Bja-on, jS". Y. ; in col- 
lege through Freshman and Sophomore years; teacher in Auburn, 
X. Y., where he died, Nov, 22, '65. 

CLASS OF 1861. 

* William H. Alexander. — From Vincennes, Ind. ; in college 
three years: Sergeant in 4th Regiment, Illinois Cavalry, and died 
at A'incennes, of typhoid fever in '62. 

Andrew Augustus Annan, Emmittsburg^ Md From Em- 

inittsburg; in college two 3'ears; served in the war as Sergeant 
in the 3d Regiment, Maryland Cavalry ; manufacturer. 

James K. Brugler, Butler., Mo. — Lawyer; from Bloomsburg ; 
left college in Junior 3'ear, and graduated at Union College in 
'61 ; after practicing law in Philadelphia a few years, he located 
in Missouri. 

"-^^Edward S. Carrell. — Son of the late Rev. John J. Carrel), 
of '36 ; the first son of an alumnus of Lafayette to matriculate at 
his father's Alma Mater ; born at Uniontown, now Lopatcong, 
Warren county, X. J.; Freshman and Sophomore in college, then 
studied law two years with Judge Maxwell, of Easton ; non- 
commissioned officer in the 1st Pa. Infantry- through its term of 
service; then in 9th X". J. Infantry, where he became Adjutant 
;ind Captain; from the battle at Fort Darling, before Richmond, 
Va., May 16, '64, he never came out alive, and is believed to have 
been killed in action. 

John Chambers. — From New York City; a student in '5t-8. 

Robert Innes Jones, A.M., Easton. — Lawyer ; born in Easton, 
Aug. 18, 1843 ; in college Freshman year; graduated at Amherst 
College, '63 ; admitted to the bar of Northampton county, April 
24, '65, and subsequently to the Supreme Court of Pa. 

*David Inman Patterson. — From Greenwood, Columbia 
county ; left college at the end of Junior year ; died at his 
home, June 11. 1864, aged 29. 



218 The Men of Lafayette . 

William Henry Seip, A.M., Washington^ N. J. — -Druggist ; 
born in Easton, Aug. 20, 1835; taught in Easton, '53-6 ; in col- 
lege, '57-'60 ; editor and publisher of the Easton Times, and 
Der Beohachter, '59-'61 ; studied medicine ; married a daughter 
of Rev. John P. Hecht, Professor in Lafaj'ctte in '40-5; in active 
military service from April 17, '61, to March 6, '66, through all 
the grades from Private and Acting Assistant Surgeon to Col- 
onel ; in the 1st Pa. Regiment, 11th Pa. Cavahy, and 1st Regi- 
ment TJ. S Colored Cavalry ; he received A.M. from Lafayette 
in '65; since '66, druggist at Washington. 

Rev. William Henry Smith, Topeka, III. — Teacher; left 
college in Junior year; graduated at Hanover College, Ind., '61 ; 
was two years at Western Theological Seminary ; licensed and 
ordained, '66 ; pastor of Wabash church three years ; Principal 
of the " Presbyterian School," at Friendsville, Illinois, 
five years, of North Sangamon Academy, at Athens, '75-8 ; and 
since Nov., '78, at Topeka. 

Chester L. Teel, Neivton, N. J. — Born at Blairstown, N. J. ; 
in college from Sept., '67, to March, '59 ; since leaving college 
he has been teaching and in the drug business ; was Principal of 
the Newton Collegiate Institute about '70-3. 

Jacob Titman, SpringvUle, Montana. — Born in Knowlton, 
Wanen county, N. J. ; in Junior year he went to Union College, 
and there graduated in '61 ; has been in Montana for ten years; 
engaged in teaching and farming. 

Francis B. Wells From Newburg, N. Y. ; a student in 

Freshman and part of Sophomore year. 

CLASS OF 1862. 

George Whitfield Alexander, Vincennes, Ind. — Born near 
Vincennes, Sept. 11, 1841 ; in college Freshman year; since '60, 
he has been a farmer, and is an elder in the Presbyterian church. 

Francis John Alison, Philadelj)hia.—'Layvycv; born in Jen- 
nersville, Chester county. May 16,1843; left college at end of 
Freshman year on account of ill health ; graduated at Harvard, 
'65; clerk in Union National Bank, Philadelphia, '69 ; in wool 
business, '69-'72 ; admitted to the bar, June, '75. 



Former Students — 1862. 219 

*JoHN MoTTER Annan. — Bom in Emmittsburg, Md., March 
17, 1841 ; in Aug., '61, at tlie beginning of Senior year, he joined 
the 1st Regiment Md. Cavalry, being Lieutenant of Company C, 
and was killed in cam^D, at Frederick, Md., Nov. 14, '61, by the 
accidenttd discharge of a carbine. "A sincere and consistent 
Christian, both in college and camp." 

Rev. James Robinson Campbell, 3Iay^s Landing, N. J. — 
From Saharanpur, North India; born Feb. 28, 1840; Freshman 
year at Williams; teacher of Deaf and Dumb Institute, New- 
York City ; ordained and installed at Ridgebury, Orange count}', 
N. Y., Nov. 30, "69 ; called to Somerset, N. Y., July, '71. 

John Chandler, Centreville, Hunterdon county, N. J. — 
Born at Bethlehem, N. J., Aug. 2, 1838 ; in college Freshman, 
Sophomore and one term Junior; served three years in 2d Regi- 
ment, N. J. Cavalry as First Lieutenant tind Quartermaster, '62-5 ; 
of late in mercantile business and teaching. 

Rev. William Henry Harrison Cruikshank, -A.M., M.D., 

New City, Rockland county, N. Y. — Born at Cecilton, Md., Jan. 
22, 1842; in college Sept., '58, to May, '61; graduated at Medi- 
<:d Department of University of Mar^dand, '64; Assistant Sur- 
geon in Baltimore Infirmar}' ; practiced ten years and then 
studied at General Theological Seminary of Protestant Episcopal 
Church in New York; ordained Deacon, June 6, '78 ; now rector 
of parish in New Cit}', Rockland county, N. Y.; received A.M. 
from Lafayette in '77. 

Horace J. Culbertson, Lewistown. — Lawyer; born at Lewis- 
town, May 25, 1842; in college Sophomore year; studied law at 
Lewistown, and admitted to the bar April 6, '66; held the office 
of District Attorney of Mifflin county, '72-4. 

*James Groff Emery. — Born at Pattenburg, Hunterdon 
county, N. J., Aug. 20, 1840 ; in college first term of Freshman 
year; health failing, he left and engaged as clerk in a store in 
New York ; married in Jersej'^ City, '65, and there died, April 
14, '77 ; his famil}' now resides at Susquehanna Depot, Pa. 

David Allison Irwin, Mifflinhurg, Union county. — Born in 
Union county, April 2, 1840; at the end of Freshinan year be 



220 The Men of Lafayette, 

entered Amherst, but before graduating he entered the arm}', in 
'61, as Second Lieutenant of 12th Regiment Pa. Cavalry, and 
served through the war, leaving with the rank of Captain; entered 
the Regular Army in '66 as Second Lieutenant, 4th Regiment 
Cavalry, and is now Captain; member of the Pa, Legislature from 
Union county one term, '65. 

HE>fRY Page McPhail, Norfolk, Va. — Only son of President 
McPhail ; born in Virginia ; in college three j^ears ; was for some 
3'ears a civil engineer, and now a Justice in Norfolk. 

Albert N. Seip, Duluth, Minn. — Lawyer; entered college 
from Easton ; Captain Co. H, 2d Regiment Pa. Cavahy ; Cap- 
tain in Signal Corps Co. ; graduated at Columbia College Law 
School, D. C, '67 ; County Superintendent of Schools, Minn. ; 
and at Duluth since '70. 

Henry W. Sherrer.— In college three years, his residence 
being at first Lewisville, Chester count}', and afterward Fair Hill, 
Md. No recent information received. 

Duncan Stephen Walker, Washington, D. C. — Law^-er ; son 
of Hon. Robert J. Walker, Governor of Mississippi ; born in 
Washington in 1842 ; in college one term of Freshman year ; 
studied law in Washington ; entered the array in Feb., '63, as 
Captain, and served until May, '65, when he resigned, his last 
commission being Brigadier General ; has held several honorary' 
positions, as Chairman of the Congressional Democratic Com- 
mittee, etc. 

CLASS OF 1863. 
*Henry D. Agnew, M.D. — Born at Bath, Pa. ; in college Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years ; graduated at Medical Department ot 
the Universit}^ of Pennsylvania, '66; Hospital Steward, 154th 
Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers; died April 12, '68, from 
sickness contracted by exposure in his practice at Sherraansdale, 
Perry county. Pa., aged 27 j^ears. 

Robert Patterson Andrews, Del Norte, Colorado. — Metal- 
lurgist ; born at Doylestown, Pa., Aug. 10, 1842 ; in college 
through Freshman, Sophomore and Junior j^ears ; served in the 
128th Pennsylvania Infantry ; received degree of A.B. in '67 ; in 



Former Students— ~i86j. 221 

\]. S. Mint, Philadelphia, '63; at Denver, Col., '63-'n ; and at 
Carson City, '71-5 ; Melter and Refiner in U. S. Mint at Denver ; 
Assayer at Carson Citj^ ; now Assaj'er at Del Norte. 

John Mitchell Bingham, — From Hollidaysburg ; in partial 
course Freshman year; subsequently held an appointment in the 
Philadelphia Post Office. 

*John Hecht Buckley Born in Easton, March 6, 1842: 

graduate of Easton High School ; left college in Junior year ; 
enlisted in 129th Pa. Infantry, Aug., '62, and died of typhoid in 
camp, at Sharpsburg, Md., Oct. 18, '62. A popular composer 
and performer of music. 

John C. Bushnell, New York City, — Law3^er ; entered college 
from Easton ; left at the end of Junior year, and graduated at 
Union College in '63 ; practicing at 291 Broadway. 

Robert Craig, U. S. Army^ Washington^ D. C— From Lehigh 
Gap ; in his Junior ^ear he received the appointment to a cadet- 
ship at West Point, where he graduated in '66, and was commis- 
sioned 2d Lieut, of 5th Regt. U. S. Artillery, June 20, '66; he 
has for many years past been assigned to duty in the Signal Ser- 
vice, preparing the daily indications of the weather, in the office 
of Gen. Myer. 

*John Ferguson. — From Philadelphia; taught successively at 
Pottstown, Geimantown, and West Chester, and Cincinnati, O. ; 
while a law student in the office of Hon. William B. Reed, Phil- 
adelphia, he died, July 19, '69, aged 28. 

*Edmunds Horner Field. — Son of Dr. C. C. Field ; was born 
in Easton ; " in his Junior year he died suddenly, on the 14th of 
Sept., 1861, aged 11, beloved by all ; manj' testified to his manly 
worth, and lamented his early departure." 

William Hackett, Jr., Easton. — Cashier Easton National 
Bank; in college three years, '5 9-'62 ; Junior Orator; graduated 
at College of New Jersey, '63; admitted to bar at Easton, Aug. 
26, '6*7 ; never practiced ; in bank since '67. 

Thomas Renick Hayes, M.D., Bellefonte. — Born at Mifflin- 
burg, Union county, July 1, 1839; in college through Sophomore 



222 The Men of Lafayette. 

year ; was " Captain" of the " College Guards" in '61 ; gracUiated 
at Chicago Medical College in '64 ; practiced four years at Ocon- 
omowoc, Wis., and since '69 at Bellefonte ; Vice-President of the 
Pennsylvania Medical Society in '6*7-8, and contributed the chap- 
ter on " The Medical Profession'' in the History of Centre count3\ 

Abraham Depue Hazen, AM, Washington., D. G. — From Mt. 
Bethel ; in college Freshman year ; in U. S. postal service since 
'66 ; superintendent of stamp department ; graduated at Colum- 
bia (D.C.) Law School in '7*7 ; third assistant Postmaster General 
since "77 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '77. 

William Sebrino Kirkpatrick, A.M., Easton.— Lawyer ; 
born in Easton, April 21, 1844; in college '59-'62 ; taught and 
studied law under Judge Maxwell, and was admitted to the bar, 
Oct. 2, '65 ; received A.M. from Lafayette in '72 ; he has been a 
member of the Board of Control of Easton, President of the 
Alumni Association in '74 ; and in April, '74, was appointed 
President Judge of the Third Judicial District of Penn., which 
position he held until the election of his successor, Judge Meyers, 
of class of '47. 

Brainerd Leaman, A.M., M.D., Leamnn Place., Lancaxler Co. 
— Born in Lancaster county ; in college three yenrs ; graduated at 
Jefferson Medical College. '64; assistant Surgeon of 47th Regi- 
ment Pa. Militia in '63 ; ;;cting assistant Surgeon TJ. S. A , Gen- 
eral Hosjjital, Haddington, Philadelphia, in '64 ; received A.M. 
from Lafayette, Oct., '66 ; practicing at Leaman IMace since '65 ; 
President of Lancaster County Medical Society; permanent 
member of Medical Society of Pennsylvania. 

Charles Edward Lee, A.M., M.D.,P»rci'(/'s Station., Westchester 
Co., N. F.— Born in New York city, March 7, 1842; in college 
Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years ; studied in the Medical 
Department of Columbia College, '63 to '66 ; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '78 ; elder in Presbyterian church, and school tiustee. 

John L. Lloyd, Altoona. — Merchant ; from Hollidaysbnrg ; in 
col'ege two years, '59-'61 ; engaged in banking at Pittsburg and 
Altoona. 

Oliver Payson Rex, M.D., Philadelx)hia From Perry, 111.; 

in college two years, '59-61; was assistant Surgeon in 33d Illi- 



Former Students — i86j. 223 

Jiois Regiment; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, 'fit, and 
has since practiced in Philadelpliia, at 1522 Race street. 

Clement Stewart, Easton. — Fiom South Easton; in college 
two years, '59-'61, and afterwards entered the College of New 
Jersey, graduating in '64 ; served as private in the 38tli Pa. Mil- 
itia; has since bee)i engaged in wire manufacture; member of 
South Easton Borough Council. 

CLASS OF 1864. 

William A. Busiinell. — Brother of John C. Bushnell, in 
'63; born in 1843; in college, '60-2; graduated at Union College 
in '64 ; was cashier of a manufacturing compan}^ in Baltimore five 
years, and with W. A. Butler & Co., lawers, at HI Broadway, 
New York, until Ma}', '78; present residence unknown. 

James Cloyd Doty, A.M., Pittsburg. — Lawj^er; boruatMifflin- 
town, 1844; in college Sept., '61, to May, '63, Sophomore and 
Junior; and at Yale, Sept, '63, to May, '65, ill health preventing 
graduation; studied law with his father, and at Albany Law 
School, where he graduated as LL. B., in May, '68 ; received 
A.M. from Lafayette, '68; practiced at Miffiintown from Sept., 
'68, to Nov., '72, and since at Pittsburg. 

*Henry Bldd Howell. — Born in Northampion count}'. Pa., 
May 2, 1840 ; in Sept., '61, at the end of his Freshman year he 
enlisted in the 1st N. Y. Lincoln Cavalry, and was in active ser- 
vice, until — after a brief illness- — he died in hospital, at Fairfax 
Seminary, Ya., Jan. 10, '62. His son is in the class of '81. 

Herman F. W. Reimer, Philadeljjhia, — A native of Germany; 
in college two years ; since '63 engaged in business in Philadel- 
phia — paper hangings, etc. — at 1635 Ridge Avenue. 

John Calvin Richards, Jr., M.D., Lock Haven. —From Eas- 
ton ; in college until Junior year; private in 129th Penn. Infan- 
try, and assistant Surgeon in hospital at Mobile, Ala. ; graduated 
at Jefferson Medical College, '65, and since practicing at Lock 
Haven. 

William Henry Risk, M.D., Summit., Union county., N. J. — 
From Muncy, Pa.; in college two years, '60-2; graduated at 
Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, '66. 



224 riic Men of Lafayette, 

Alexander Lucas Tiiorne^ PhiladelpJi.ia. — Born at Freehokl. 
Monmouth county, N. J,, Jan. 13, 1841 ; left college tit the end ol' 
Sophomove 3'ear, and entei'ed the 39th N. J. Regiment ; for some 
3'ears in mercantile business in Oil City; now in express business 
in Philadelphia, 8421 Market Street. 

John K. Van Arsdale, Neiv York. — Graduated at Easton 
High School; in college Freshman year ; graduated with honor 
at Kutger's College, '64; now in Ciiatham National Bank; re- 
sides at Plainfield, N. J. 

James Henry VanCleef, A.M., Neiv Ih'unswick, N. J. — 
Tiawyer; born at Branchville, Somerset county, N. J., July 12, 
1841; in college Freshman year; admitted to New Jersey bar 
June t), '67; received A.M from Lafayette, "12; member of New 
Jersey Legislature, '75 ; attorney' for city of New Brunswick, "78. 

William Patterson Clark Yan Doren, WasJiingtun, N.J. — 
Born at Washington, Oct. 29, 1842 ; in college, '60-1 ; served in 
31st New Jersej^ Regiment, '62-3 ; since '63 in lumber business, 

CLASS OF 1865. 
Edward M. Biddle. — Born in hnuvilh'; in college Fnsliiiiau 
year; early went to California ; reported to be engaged in mer- 
cantile business. 

Charles Beatty Finley, E Ik/on, Md. — Banker ; born at South 
Bend, Ind., April 20, 1845 ; early home was in Philadelphia; in 
college part of Freshman year ; engaged principally in banking 
l)usiness ; now cashier of the National Bank of Elkton. 

William A. Housel, New York City.— Son of George W. 
Housel, a Trustee of Lafayette ; born in Easton ; in college a 
year, '61-2 ; cashier of Consumers' Ice Company. 

Theodorus McLeod, New York City. — Lawyer ; born in New 
York ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; then entered 
Junior at Union, and there graduated in '65 ; during the war 
"was out " with Captain Hay's Company, 38th Penn. Regiment, 
from Easton ; and afterward Captain in 84th N. Y. Regiment ; 
studied law in New York ; admitted to the bar in '68 ; practiced 
in Pittsburg, and then returned to New York, where he is now a 
Notary Public, and Commissioner for Pennsylvania, at 55 Liber- 
ty Street. 



Former Students — 186^. 225 

*Charles B. Notson. — Born in Philadelphia ; son of Dr. Wil- 
liam Notson ; left college in Junior year ; went thence to Dan- 
ville, Pa. ; Springfield, 111., where he married Miss Lucretia Bro- 
kaw ; and to St. Joseph, Mo,, where he engaged in mercantile 
business, and there died, April 17, '70, aged 29. 

Abraham C. TxiijhY ^Deckertown^ Sussex Co., N.J. — Merchant; 
Born at Martin's Creek, Oct. 25, 1844 ; in college '61-2 ; in mer- 
cantile business in New York '63-'75 ; received the degree of A.B. 
from Lafayette in '75 ; in hardware business atDeckertown since 
'75; a frequent contributor to local journals. 

CLASS OF 1866. 

*Daniel Seaman Edinger. — From Carpentersville, N. J. ; ex- 
pected to engage in professional life ; but was killed in a railroad 
accident at Green's Bridge, near Easton, Dec. 1, 1865. 

Henry Maxwell McCartney, Portland., Oregon. — Only son 
of Prof. W. McCartney; born in Easton, April 12, 1848; at the 
end of Junior year he left college to engage in civil engineering, 
first on a railroad in West Virginia, and subsequently on the 
Midland, in New York ; he then made bridge construction a spe- 
cialty, on the Lehigh and Susquehanna, and the Union Pacific ; 
was on the Kalama Division of the Northern Pacific, '69-'75 ; 
and since '76, engaged with the Oregon Steam Navigation Co. 

Thomas Yelverton, Fort Edward^ N. Y. — Merchant; fiom 
Chester, N. Y.; in college three years, '62-5; Junior Orator; 
graduated at Union College, '66 ; private in 38th Pa. Militia, 
while a student ; in business in Kansas at first; but since '70 at 
Fort Edward. 

CLASS OF 1S67. 

David Benjamin Holt, South Easton. — Born at South Easton, 
April 12, 1847; in college two years; since '66 clerk for the 
Glendon Iron Companj', at the South Easton Furnace. 

Samuel Whitehall Latta, M.D., West Philadelphia. — Born 
at Parkesburg, Chester county, July 23, 1848 ; in college from 
Sept., '63, to Feb., '66 ; graduated at Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania, '68 ; March 24, '68, was commissioned 
as assistant Surgeon in the U. S. Navy ; resigned in Nov., '73 ; 
at present residing in West Philadelphia, engaged in railroad 



226 The Men of Lafayette, 

business ; author of " Railway Directory of the United Statef^ 
and Canada," 

James W. Maynard, Williamsport, — Born at Williamsport, 
March 24, 1844; in college Freshman 3'ear; engaged in lumber 
business. 

Levin A. Messinger, Philadelphia. — Born in Porks township, 
Dec. 27, 1844; in college Freshman year; studied pharmacy in 
Philadelphia, and since '67 has been a druggist, making a spe- 
cialty of the supply of medical stores to ships ; was inspector of 
vessels of the port of Philadelphia for eight years. 

William Robert McFarlane, Texas. — Born at Reedsville, 
Mifflin county. Pa., Feb. 13, 1847 ; served as a private in the 
195th Pa. Regiment; in General Scientific course, '66-7; since 
'69, has been engaged in the Indian Territor}^ and Texas as a 
dealer in live stock. 

Isaac Ott, A.M., M.D., ^a6-ton.--Born atMt. Bethel, Nov. 30, 
1847; in college, '64-6, Sophomore and Junior; graduated at 
Medical Department of the IJniversity of Pennsylvania, '69 ; 
studied afterward at Leipzic, Berlin, Werzburg, and London ; 
organized and conducted the first Physiological Laboratory in 
the Universitj^ of Pennsylvania ; lecturer on Experimental Phy- 
siology in the University of Penns3-lvania ; Fellow of Johns 
Hopkins University, in Biolog^^ ; author of " Physiological Action 
of Coca," and "Action of Medicine," 1877 ; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '77 ; member of Medical Society of Pennsylvania ; 
Atlanta Academy of Medicine ; Fellow of the American Acade- 
my of Medicine. 

Harry Wilson Scott, 7:/cr,sion. —Lawyer; born at Newtown, 
Bucks county, March 8, 1846; left college in Sophomore year ; 
studied law in Doylestown, April '65, to April, '68, and on April 
29, '68, was admitted to the bar at Fasten, where he has since 
practiced ; was Borough Solicitor, '75-6 and '77-8. 

Levi Schobert, Wajnvallopen, Luzerne Co. — In college one 
term of Sophomore year ; and since '65 has tanglit. 

*Edwin Douglass Stem.— Born in Reading ; son of Dr. B. F. 
Stem, of '38 ; died at Washington, D. C, April 11. 1865, aged 17. 



Former Students — i86j . 227 

James William Stewart. — Lawyer; from York Furnace, York 
county ; entered Fresbuian, third terra, and left at the end of 
Junior year; studied law in Chicago, and was admitted to the 
bar ; went to Virginia, where his father now resides, and thence 
to Texas, where he was last heard from through his brother, who 
is a resident of that State. 



Charles James Radeb, M.E., Easton. — Born in Easton ; a 
student of the School of Mines, Freiberg ; pursued a resident 
graduate course of study in Mining and Metallurgy ; for some 
years the superintendent of the Vinton Iron Works, in Ohio. 

CLASS OF 1868. 
GriDEON E. Caleb, Philadelphia. — At college in summer term 
of Freshman j'ear ; now in book business. 

Samuel Yohe Heller, Easton. — Ticket agent ; born in Eas- 
ton ; son of Jacob B. Heller, who entered in '33 ; in college 
Freshman and part of Sophomore year. 

Robert Cabeen Hopkins, Port Deposit^ Md. — Born at Cono- 
wingo Furnace, Lancaster county. Pa., Nov. 22, 1845 ; in college 
from Jan., '65, to '67 ; on Sept. 15, '67, he entered the Cecil Na- 
tional Bank, and since Jan. 1, '73, has been its cashier. 

John L. Janeway, Jamestown, Green Go.., Ohio From Flem- 

ington, N. J. ; in college two years ; he has been a civil engineer, 
for some years past engaged in railroad construction. 

Rev. Joel Smith Kelsey, A.M., Belmont., N. Y. — Born at 
Huntington, L. L, April 24, 1848; in college Freshman, Sopho- 
more, and Junior years ; law student at University of Michigan 
one year ; lawyer, Feb., '69, to Jan., '72 ; at Western Theological 
Seminary two years ; and Union Theological Seminary one year ; 
received A.M. from Lafaj^ette in '78. 

Lyman Shaffer Knight, A.B., Congrress, TTayne Go.., 0. — From 
New Castle, Ohio ; in college Sophomore year ; taught at Fort 
Madison, Iowa, '70-3 ; received the degree of A.B. from Lafay- 
ette in '71. 

Albert McDowell, Light Street, Golumbia Go. — Born at Light 
Street, Dec. 22,1846; was Lieutenant in the 178th Regiment 



228 The Men of Lafayette. 

Pennsylviinia Militia; in General Scientific course, Sept., 'GG, t(» 
Jan., '68 : since '68, assistant superintendent of coal mines, and 
manager of the Thomas Slate Company ; present address is 1233 
Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. 

Willie Nelson Stem, Philadelphia. — Pharmacist ; born in 
Fredericksburg, Va., 1849 ; son of Dr. Stem, of '38 ; left college 
in Junior year; graduated at College of Pharmacy in '73. 

Rev. Jesse Bowman Young, A.M., Carlisle. — Born near Ber- 
wick, July 5, 1844; he served during the war, first in the West, 
and then as Lieutenant and Captain of the 84th Pennsylvania 
Volunteers; and as Aide-de-Camp on the staff of Major-General 
Casey. From Dickinson Seminary and the Polytechnic College 
of Philadelphia, he entered the Junior class, intending to become 
a civil engineer, but in Jan., '67, with a view to the ministry of 
the M. E. church, he entered Dickinson College, and there re- 
ceived the Gold Medal in the Junior Oratorical Contest, graduat- 
ing with the Latin Salutatory in '08 ; in the Central Pennsylva- 
nia' Conference ; pastor at York Springs, '68-'71 ; at Gettysburg, 
'71-4, where he built a new and handsome church edifice; atCur- 
wensville, '74-7 ; since at Carlisle; lie has frequently occupied 
the platform as a lecturer on "Echoes from Round Top ; or, the 
Story of a Great Battle," "" Summer Sights across the Sea," and 
" On to Paris." 

Hugh Hamilton, M.D., Harrishurr/.— Bovn in Philadelphin, 
May 18, 1847; graduated at Pennsylvania Agricultural College; 
a resident graduate in 'G7-8, studying Mining Engineering ; as- 
sistant Chemist and Geologist of Penns^dvania Agricultural So- 
ciety ; graduated at Medical Departmant of the University' of 
Pennsylvania in '71 ; member of the Academy of Natural Sci- 
ences, Philadelphia, of the American Chemical Society, of the 
American Medical Society, and the American Association for the 
Advancement of Science. 

CLASS OF 1S69. 

William Felix Bisel, Philadelphia. — Lawyer ; born at Tur- 
botville, Northumberland county, April 20, 1847 ; served as a 
private in the 26th Penn. Militia ; in college, Sept., '65, to Dec, 
'66 ; studied law in Easton, and was admitted to the bar at St- 



Former Students — r86g, 229 

Louis, Mo., Nov. 12, '68; practiced at Williamsport, Pa., '69-'76; 
since Jan., "77, dealer in law-books and stationery at 123 South 
5 th Street. 

Edward Bryan Cottrell, Washington, D. C. — Born at Co- 
lumbia, Pa., Aug. 6, 1846 ; in college Fi*eshman year ; in mercan- 
tile business in Philadelphia, '66-9 ; in '69 entered the Law School 
of Columbia College; since '71, in lumber business in Washing- 
ton. 

Calvin Davis, San Francisco, CaL — Lawyer; from Lime- 
stoneville, Montour count}' ; in General Scientific course, Fresh- 
man year ; studied law in Williamsport, and was there admitted 
to the bar, and practiced a short time ; then engaged in business 
successively at Lewisburg, Kansas Citj^, the Black Hills, and 
since '77 in California. 

James Beaver Deshler, Allentown.—Ijawjev ) from Bath; in 
college Freshman year; graduated at Franklin and Marshall Col- 
lege in '69. 

Maurice Charles Eby, Harrishurg. — Born at Middletown, 
Pa. ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; the first student 
that entered the General Scientific Course, and made the first 
recitation in that department, Sept., '65 ; now in extensive mercan- 
tile business in the firm Eby & Sons, grocers. 

♦James Sterling Edblman. — Son of George W. Edelmau, of 
Philadelphia ; inpartial course one year; died in Brookl3'n, N.Y., 
Oct. 17, '68, aged 21. 

Alfred Peck Edgerton, Jr., Ctnc^nna^i, 0. — FromFt. Wayne ; 
in General Scientific course two years, '65-7 ; in mercantile busi- 
ness. 

Alexander Blaine Grosh, Blain, Perry Co. — Merchant ; from 
Andersonburg; private 9th Pa. Cavalry; in General Scientific 
course two years. 

*Melancthon E. Heinen. — In General Scientific course, Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years; died at his home in Milton, Sunday, 
Nov. 22, '68. 



'230 The Men of Lafayette. 

James Evans Hoagland, Fori Wayne, Bid.— Born in Fort 
Wayne, Dec. 1, 1845 ; in General Scientific course, Freshman 
year ; was a boolv-keeper in St. Louis and San Francisco for three 
3^ears ; in commission business in Chicago in '(18 ; in '69 in Texas • 
and of kite with his fiither in milling and grain business, in Fort 
Wayne. 

Clayton Wood Holmes, A.M., Elmira, N. Y. — Druggist ; 
born at Le llaysville, Bradford county. Pa., Sept. 26, '48; in 
college, Sept., '65, to May, '69 ; studied medicine at the Univer- 
sity of Pennsylvania onej'ear, '69-'70 ; druggist at Wilkes-Barre, 
'71-8; and since Jan. 1, '78, at Elmira ; received A.M. from La- 
fayette in '74. 

Franklin Jefferson Kline, Warsaiv, Indiana. — From War- 
saw ; in college Sophomore year. 

Manning Force Lantz, Augusta, Sussex Co., N. J. — From 
Augusta ; in college three years ; studied law three years in New- 
ton, but has not engaged in professional life ; is farming. 

James Sanderson Lawson, Williamsport.— Born at Milton, 
Oct. 28, 1845 ; served as private in 28th Penn. Militia; left col- 
lege at the end of Junior year, and is now cashier of the Wil- 
liamsport National Bank. 

John Howard Logan, Pittsburg. — Born at Allegheny City ; in 
General Scientific course. Sophomore and part of Junior year ; 
now in firm of Logan & Strobridge, iron founders, at New 
Brighton, Pa. 

Rev. Frederick Roavland Marvin, M.D., Middletown,N.Y. — 
Born in Tro}', N. Y., Sept. 23, 1847 ; in college Freshman year ; 
studied medicine at College of Physicians and Surgeons, gradu- 
ating in '70; Professor of Psychological Medicine and Medical 
Jurisprudence in the New York Free Medical College for Women, 
from '72 to '75, when he resigned, and studied theology in the 
Seminar}^ of the Reformed (Dutch) Church, at New Brunswick, 
graduating in '77; licensed to preach, June 22, '77; ordained and 
installed pastor of the Congregational church, Middletown, N.Y., 
April 18, '78 ; he is the author of monographs on " Literature of 
the Insane," " Death in the Light of Science," " Dream Music, a 



Former Students — r86g. 231 

volume of Poems," and " Epidemic Delusions," an essay in Psy- 
chological Medicine. 

William Fiske Patton, Greencaatle. — Lawyer; born at St. 
Thomas, Franklin county, 1847 ; in college from Jan., '6*7, to 
Dec, '68 ; studied law with Hon. F. M. Kinnell, '68-9 ; admitted 
to the bar of Franklin county, Jan. 18, '70. 

Robert Maitland Pethik, M.D., Jei'ney Cily, N. J. — From 
Phillipsburg, N. J. ; in college one year; graduated at Medical 
Department of the University of Pennsylvania, '69. 

Alexander Montgomery Russell, >S7. Louis^ Mo Born at 

Danville, Pa. ; served as private in the 13th Penn. Militia; in 
General Scientific course, Jan., '66, to '68 ; since '69 has been in 
business, chiefly in Missouri ; is now in insurance business. 

Rev. Henry Swift, Cheyenne River Agency^ Dakota. — Born 
and reared in Easton ; at the end of Freshman year, entered 
Trinity College, graduating in '69 ; engaged in the mission work 
of the Protestant Episcopal church, in Dakota ; stationed form- 
erly at Fort Sully, and since '75 as above, 

Humphrey Dillon Tate, Bedford. — Lawyer; from Bedford; 
left college in Junior year; District Attorney of Bedford county; 
'74-7, and Prothonotary, '77-9. 

Nicholas James Bayard, Jr., Lake Maifland, Orange Go.^ 
Florida. — Graduated at the Military Institute at Lexington, Va., 
in 1867 ; a resident graduate student of Mining and Metallurgy 
in '68-9 ; manager of an iron furnace in Georgia, and of late 
years in Florida. 

CLASS OF 1870. 
William Baeder Adamson, Philadelphia. — Merchant and 
manufacturer ; son of William Adamson, a Trustee, and the 
founder of the Adamson Professorship of Chemistry' ; in special 
course in chemistiy two years, '^j^-'^ ; has since been engaged in 
business with Baeder, Adamson k Co., 730 Market Street. 

Charles Henry Baldwin, Elmira, N. Y. — Born at South- 
port, near Elmira, April 8, 1848; in General Scientific course, 
'66-8 ; left on account of ill health ; in the Pittston and Elmira 



ii32 The Men of Lafayette. 

Coal Co. until July, "15, and since Sept., '78, Secretary of the 
Mclntyre Coal Co. 

James Vogan Bare. — From Bareville, Lancaster county ; in 
General Scientific course, Freshman year ; went to Cincinnati. 

John H. Bissell, Allegheny City. — In General Scientific course 
one year ; in mercantile business. 

John Walley Clark, Hazleton. — Born at Reading, Sept. H, 
1848 ; in General Scientific course from Jan., '6T, to June, '68, 
Freshman and Sophomore ; in foundry and machine shop four 
years ; for three years assistant Train Dispatcher on Hazleton 
Division, Lehigh Valley Railroad ; now Passenger Conductor on 
same road. 

Frank Doremus, A.M., Galveston, Texas. — Editor; from New 
Orleans, La. ; in college Sophomore and Junioryears ; engineer on 
Texasand Pacific Railroad ; for some j^ears past in editorial work ; 
received A.M. from Lafayette in "15 ; assisted Government party 
in observing solar eclipse, July, '78. 

William Steel Evans, Elkton^Md. — Lawyer; born near Ris- 
ing Sun, Cecil county, Md., Dec. 16, 1846 ; in college from Sept., 
'66, to March, '68, Freshman and Sophomore ; began study of law 
at Belair, Harford county, Md., with Henry W. Archer, Esq.; 
admitted to bar of same county. May 28, '70. 

Samuel J. Gruver, M.D., Portland, NoiHhamjiton Co. — Born 
in Lower Mt. Bethel township ; in General Scientific course from 
Sept. to Dec, '66 ; studied medicine at University of Pennsylva- 
nia, graduating in '69 ; elected Chief Burgess in '78. 

Winfield Scott Kennedy, B.S., Greencastle, Franklin Co. — 
Superintendent of Schools; born at Greencastle, Jan. 21, 1851 ; 
pursued Special course in Civil Engineering in '69-'70, and re- 
ceived a certificate ; from '70-'74, was assistant Engineer at Ban- 
gor, Me. ; on Pennsylvania Railroad, and at Pittsburg; teaching 
in Ohio since '74 ; received B.S. at Ohio Central Normal School 
in '78 ; now Superintendent of Schools at Yellow Springs, Ohio. 

George R. Lathrop, New York. — Born at Brockport, N. Y., 
Oct. 19, 1848 ; in General Scientific course. Freshman year ; is in 
the publishing house of Blakeman & Taylor, 138 Grand Street. 



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James Verner Long, Allegheny City. — In General Scientific 
course from second term of Freshman until Junior; tlien studied 
at Dresden and Heidelberg ; foreign corresppndent of the Pitta- 
burg Gazette during the Franco-Prussian war ; returned to U. S. 
in fall of '71 ; for several years connected with the Baltimore and 
Ohio, and now with the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Pittsburg ; 
address 205 Ridge Avenue, Allegheny. 

"Edward Kirk Meigs. — From Pottstown ; entered Sophomore, 
and from intense application to study, died at college, near the 
close of his first term, December 9, 18G7. 

Nathaniel Peasely Moody, Aaylvm, Bradford Co. — Mer- 
chant ; born at Asylum, Dec, 16, 1843; Sergeant 141st Penna. 
Infantry; in General Scientific course one year, 1866-7 ; and a 
term in '71 ; taught several years in New York, and since '71 in 
mercantile business at Asylum. 

David Gonzalis Eshleman Musselman, Philadelphia. — Born 
at Strasburg, Lancaster county ; in General Scientific course ; 
because of impaired eyesight was compelled to relinquish study 
in his Sophomore year ; studied at the Philadelphia College of 
Pharmacy, '72-4 ; and has since been a druggist, at the corner of 
20th and Parish Streets. 

Thomas McDowell Nelson, Ghambersburg Born at St. 

Thomas, June 12, 1849 ; Special course in Civil Engineering in 
college, Sept., '69, to June, '70, receiving certificate ; served an 
apprenticeship as locomotive builder ; has held positions as assist- 
ant engineer with Walling & Gray, of Boston ; with Pennsylva- 
nia Railroad ; with New York Central and Hudson River Railroad, 
and now engineer for Douglass Elliptical Truss Bridge, and 
Borough engineer of Chambersburg ; clerk of the County Com- 
missioners of Franklin county, '78-. 

Frank Sumner Rice, Elmira, N.Y. — Lawyer; fromElmira; 
in General Scientific course, 1866-7 ; for some years farming at 
Westfield, Mass., and now in Elmira. 

Clarence Henderson Risk, M.D., Philadelphia. — Born at 
Lewisburg, January 21, 1849; in college from Sept., '66, to 
April, '68 ; studied at Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, '68-9 ; 



234 ■ The Men of Lafayette. 

and graduated in medicine at University of Pennsytvania, '77 ; 
was a druggist eight years, and since March, '77. practitioner of 
medicine at 1922 Bprks street. 

Francis Fenelon Rowland, M.D., Media^ Delaware Co. — 
At the end of Freshman year he entered the University of Penn- 
sylvania, and graduated at Jefferson Medical College in '73. 

Monroe Porter Seltzer, Mount Joy^ Lancaster Co. — Born 
at Schaefferstown, Lebanon county, Nov. 18, 1848; in college 
Freshman year ; began medical studj', but since '72 has been a 
telegraph operator. 

Frank Jordan Washabatigh, Yankton^ Dakotah. — Lawyer ; 
born at Bedford, Pa., July 2, 1849; in college Freshman 3'ear ; 
in oil business in Pennsylvania until '74 ; admitted to bar of Da- 
kota April 14, '75 ; first District Attorney of the Black Hills, 
appointed March 17, '77; Mr. W., with the aid of the Judge, 
Sheriff and Clerk of the Court, hewed the furniture for the room 
occupied at the first session of the court, erected the log cabin in 
which it was held, and had but two cases on the calendar. 



Addison Storrs Lewis, B.S. — From Clifton, Ohio ; graduated 
at Miami L^niversity in '69, with degree of B.S. ; a resident grad- 
uate in '69-'70, studying engineering. 

George W. Oberholtzer, C.E., Sioux City., lowa.—Boxxi in 
West Pikeland township, Chester county, Feb. 24, 1847; Post 
Graduate course of Civil Engineering from April to June, '70 ; 
graduated at Pennsylvania Polytechnic College, Philadelphia, in 
'71 ; since that time has been assistant engineer on Burlington 
and Missouri River Railroad in Nebraska; City Engineer of 
Sioux City, Iqwa — now sixth term, and County Surveyor of 
Woodbury count3\ 

CLASS OF 1871. 

Harry Calvin Beitel, Easton. — Born at Nazareth, North- 
ampton county, Sept. 19, 1849; in General Scientific course two 
years, '/67-9 ; jeweler and watchmaker ; regulator of Easton time 
since April, '77. 

Isaac Borts. — From Middle Spring, Cumberland county ; left 
college at the end of Junior year; taught several j'^ears at 
Nanuet, Rockland county, N. Y. ; no recent information received. 



Former Students — i8yi. 235 

Rev. Frank Boyle, Slate Lick^ Armstrong Co. — Born at 
Johnstown, Columbia county, Sept. 26, 1844; in college Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years ; after a full course of three years he 
graduated at Western Theological Seminary in '73 ; ordained and 
installed pastor at Slate Lick, June 23, '73. 

Charles Henry Dickenshied, M.D., Milford Square, — Born 
at Trappe, Aug. 10, 1850; in college Freshman j^ear ; studied 
medicine at University of Vermont in Burlington, and at the 
University of Pennsylvania, '70-'73 ; his father entered Lafay- 
ette in '37. 

James P. Dickson, Wilkes-Barre. — Born at Carboudale, Lu- 
zerne county ; son of Hon. Thomas Dickson, a Trustee of Lafay- 
ette, and President of the Delaware and Hudson Canal and Rail- 
road Company ; in General Scientific course, '67-8 ; left college 
on account of ill health, engaged in railroad business, '68-9 ; 
with Olyphant & Co., commission merchants in Hong Kong, '69- 
'72 ; and has since been connected with the Dickson Manufactur- 
ing Company — locomotives and machinery — since '75, having 
charge of the Wilkes-Barre branch, and also of some coal works. 

Sylvanus Henry Easton, New York City. — From Belvidere, 
N. J. ; in college Sophomore and Junior years; in lumber busi- 
ness in Fernandina, Florida, some years ; and now merchant 
at 146 Reade Street. 

Philip Adam Gerberich, Mansjield, Ohio. — From Lebanon ; 
in General Scientific course, Freshman year; in mercantile busi- 
ness in Ohio. 

John Norton Groesbeck, San Antonio, Texas. — In General 
Scientific course, Sophomore year. 

James Alexander Hand, Palisades, N. Y. — Son of Rev. Dr. 
A. H, Hand, a Trustee of Lafayette ; boi-n near Bloomsbury, N. 
J. ; in General Scientific course two years ; in mercantile business 
at Hackettstown some years ; then at the Mott Iron Works in 
New York until '78. 

Frank Bernard Heckman, Fhillipsburg, N. J. — Son of Gen. 
C. A. Heckman ; born in Easton, Oct. 7, 1849 ; in General Scien- 



236 The Men of Lafayette. 

tific course two years ; taught ; was local editor of the Warren 
County Democrat^ and now I'eporter for the Easton Express. 

John Jacob Heiney, Easton — Born in Easton, 1849 ; in Gen- 
eral Scientific course two years ; has since been in the freight de- 
partment of the Central Railroad. 

George Snavely Henry, Duncannon. — Druggist ; from Leb- 
anon ; in General Scientific course, Freshman year ; studied med- 
icine at University of Pennsylvania. 

Robert Hopewell Hepburn, Catasauqua. — Born at Tiffin, 
Ohio, July 2, 1850; brought up in Williamsport ; left college in 
Sophomore year ; in banking and marble works at Williamsport, 
'Tl-5 ; in the latter year he made the circuit of the globe; the 
years '77-8 he spent in England, Portugal and South America, 
chiefly on the Amazon, engaged in matters connected with the 
development of the railroad and steamboat interests of Brazil. 

Harlem Page Hess, Easton, — Merchant ; from Easton ; in 
General Scientific course, 1867-8. 

William James Hogg, Philadelphia. — In General Scientific 
course Freshman year ; now a manufacturer in Philadelphia, 
1624 Deal street. 

Jacob Benezet Juvenal, Fort Beno, Indian Ter. — Lawyer; 
born in Philadelphia; in General Scientific course two j'ears, '67- 
9; studied law in Philadelphia, and held various positions of 
trust, mainly of legal nature ; since '76 has been at Fort Reno, 
connected with the firm of Neal W. Evans & Co., Military Trad- 
ers ; his permanent address is 426 Library Street, Philadelphia. 

Theodore Cuyler Juvenal, Philadelphia. — Brother of the 
preceding ; in General Scientific course Freshman year ; has 
since resided in Philadelphia at 836 North Broad street. 

Heinrigh Wilhelm Adolph Leue. From Hosseringen, 

Prussia ; a student in Freshman year, having the ministry in 
view; returned to Prussia. 

Rev. Joseph James McCarrell, Shelbyville, Ky. — Born in 
Washington county. Pa. ; from Washington and Jefferson Col- 
lege ; in Lafayette in Junior year ; returning to Washington and 



Former Students — i8yi. 23 T 

Jefferson College, he graduated in '71 with the first honor, and 
Was tutor there one year; graduated at Western Theological 
Seminary in '74, and has since been pastor at Shelbyville. 

Charles McCauley, Barney^ Clearfield Co — Born at Holli- 
daysburg, Aug. 13, 1848 ; left college at the end of Junior year, 
and has since been engaged in lumber manufacturing at Osceola, 
and of late at Ramey, where he is also post-master. 

George K. McMurtrte, Belvidere^ N. J". — Born in Oxford 
township, N. J., March 15, 1850 ; left college one term before 
graduation, and. since partner with his father in lumber and 
flouring mills. 

Joseph McCarroll McNulty, New York City. — Lawyer ; 
from Winona, Minn.; in General Scientific course Sophomore 
year. 

John Dusenberre Maxwell, Easton. — Born in Easton ; in 
college Freshman year ; Sophomore year in Williams College ; 
has since resided in Easton. 

Allan Cunningham Milliken, Bennett, Allegheny Co. — Born 
at Petersburg, Dec. 13, 1849 ; in General Scientific course until 
the end of Junior year, when he engaged in lumber manufacture ; 
since Aug., '75, manager of the Millvale Iron Works. 

William Gad Morgan, Danville. — Prom Danville; in Gen- 
eral Scientific course Freshman and Sophomore jears ; iron man- 
ufacturer. 

Zantzinger McDonald Smith, Pittsburg. — From Pittsburg- 
in General Scientific course, '67-9. 

Charles A. Stillwell, Nashville, Tenn. — Florist and farmer ; 
from Adams' Mills, Ohio; in Special course during part of Senior 
year. 

Rev. William Kelly Tully, A.M., Jacksonville, Florida. — 
Born at Princeton, N. J,, Nov. 9, 1851 ; in college Freshman 
and Sophomore ; taught and read law, '69-'72 ; at Princeton 
Theological Seminary three years, and graduated in '75 ; preached 
at Medina, N. Y., '75-7 ; at Jacksonville, Fla., since '77 ; re- 
ceived A.M. from Lafaj^ette in '77. 



238 The Mefi of Lafayette. 

Robert Love Walker, ^ws^m, Nevada. — Born at Mill Creek 

Hundred, Del., March 15, 1846; in college from Jan. to Jul}^ 

68, when his eyesight became impaired; taught; mercantile 

business afid flour mill ; since Aug., '76, mining superintendent. 

Isaac Henry Welling, Trenton.^ N. J. — From Belvidere, N. J. ; 
in General Scientific course; left during Sopliornore year ; en- 
gaged in the service of the Penns^dvania Railroad. 

James William Wilson, Easton. — Lawyer ; born in Easton, 
Oct. 28, 1852; in Special course in civil engineering, '69-'71 ; 
civil engineer one year on the New York and Oswego Midland 
Railroad ; studied law in the office of E. J. Fox, Esq., "74-7, and 
was admitted to the bar in Oct., '77 ; town clerk, '75-6, and '77-9. 

Samuel Geddes Wilson, M.D., Independence, Iowa. — Born at 
Selin's Grove, Snyder county, Pa., July 23, 1850 ; in General Sci- 
entific course from Sept., '67, to Jan., '70 ; graduated at JeflTerson 
Medical College, '73. 

Daniel Burton Wood, Easton. — Born in Chester, N. Y., Feb. 
13, 1850; in college Freshman year; journalist in Allentown, 
Savannah, and Easton; since '77, editor of Easton Eree Press. 

John Marshall Young, Easton. — Born in Easton, Oct. 2,1851- 
in Technical course from Oct., '67, to Marcb, '71 ; since that time 
engaged in civil and mining engineering ; and Borough surveyor 
in '79 ; President of the Hevner Transportation and Construction 
Company of Pennsylvania. 

Thomas William Youngman, A.M.^M.D., 3Iifflinburg. — Born 
at Mifflinburg, July 28, 1849; in General Scientific course from 
Sept., '66, to '69 ; practiced medicine for a time in Wisconsin ; 
received A.M. from Lafayette in '75 ; since '75, has been a drug- 
gist. 

CLASS OF 1872. 

Chester Dewey Allis, Rochester, N.Y. — Civil engineer ; born 
at Rochester, Sept. 30, 1848 ; took special course in General Sci- 
entific department. Sophomore year; for a time cashier and book- 
keeper for Hubbard & Northrop, Rochester, but for four years 
past engaged on engineer corps of Atlantic and Great Westei'n 
Railroad, at Urbana, Ohio. 



Former Students— i8y 2. 239 

Rev. Jacob Boyd Andrews, Appleton^ Wisconsin. — Born at 
Leraont, Centre count}^ ; before entering college he served three 
years in Company G, 148th Pa. Regiment, under General Han- 
cock ; left college at the end of Junior year ; graduated at North- 
western Theological Seminary in Chicago, in '75 ; licensed June 
12, '74, at Menominee ; ordained June 15, '75, at Oswego, 111. ; 
pastor at Columbus, Wis., Jan., '77, to Nov., '78, and since pastor 
at Appleton. 

Cassius M. Anstett, Ea^ton. — Lawyer; boini in Bethlehem 
township, Oct., 1850 ; Freshman year at Lafayette ; Sophomore 
and Junior at Lehigh University; studied law with his uncle, 
Judge Meyers, class of '47 ; admitted to the bar of Northampton 
county, Aug., '73; deputy Prothonotary ; District Attorney, '77- 
'80. 

William Davidson Babcock, M.D., EvansviUe, Ind. — Born at 
Evansville, Ind., March 29, 1851 ; in General Scientific course, 
Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years ; engaged in civil engin- 
eering in Pennsj'lvania and Illinois, '71-5; graduated at Evans- 
ville Medical College, '78, being also class Valedictorian. 

Horace Brown Bannard, Camden,, N. J. — Born in New York 
City, July 29, 1851 ; Special course in Civil Engineering, from 
Sept., '70, to June, '71 ; assistant engineer on Mays Landing and 
Western Railroad from June to Sept. ,'71 ; '72-6 on Pennsylvania 
Railroad, New Jersey Division ; Oct., '76, to May, '78, City Sur- 
veyor of Rahwa}^, N. J. 

John Mitchell Birch, Wheeling, W. Va. — Teacher ; born at 
Claysville, Washington county, July 7, 1851 ; in college Jan. to 
June, '70; graduated at Washington and Jefferson, '72 ; taught 
in Columbia, '72-3; studied theology two years, but has not 
sought a license to preach ; since '75, Principal of the Lindsley 
Institute. 

Rev. James Gray Bolton, A.M., Philadelphia. — Born in 
Count}^ Derrj', Ireland, March 17, 1847 ; studied at Union Theo- 
logical Seminar^', and graduated in '75; ordained June 28, '75, 
and has since preached at Hope Chapel; received A.M. from 
Lafayette in '76 ; resides at 3115 Wharton street. 



240 The Men of Lafayette. 

Algernon David Brown, Shenandoah. — From Pottsville ; in 
college Freshman and Sophomore years; Superintendent of No. 
4 Colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal Co., at Lost 
Creek, Schuylkill county. 

Frank Wagener Burke, Easton. — Born in Easton, Sept. 9, 
1851; in General Scientific course, one term; commenced the 
study of law in '69; he had charge of the manufacture of the 
U. S. envelopes at the Centennial Exhibition, at the close of 
which he was appointed in the Government works at Hartford, 
Conn., where he now is. 

Brewster Cameron, Beloit Mitchell Co., Kans. — Born near 
Danville, April 5, 1852; in General Scientific course Freshman 
and Sophomore ^^ears ; was engaged in printing at Columbia 
and Marietta, '70-2 ; studied law in Lancaster, and was there 
admitted to the bar, Dec, '75, and to bar of Berks county in Jan., 
'76; opened an office at Reading; was postal clerk on Northern 
Central Railroad, and now Special Agent of the U. S. Post-office 
Department at St. Louis. 

Colin Cameron, Brickerville, Lancaster' Co.— Born at Dan- 
ville, December 10, 1849 ; entered college from Selin's Grove; in 
General Scientific course Freshman year ; resident of Lancaster 
county since '69, having charge of the "Elizabeth Stock Farms;" 
since Nov., '76, has had charge of the landed estate of the late 
Hon. G. Dawson Coleman. 

* WiLLiSTON Camp.— From Herrick, Bradford county ; died at 
college, at the beginning of his course, Nov., 1868. 

Benjamin Chambers, Jr., M.S., Chamber sburg. — Lawyer ; 
born near Chambersburg, Jan. 29, 1851 ; special course in Scien- 
tific department for two years; was assistant chemist in Asfricul- 
tural department, Washington, D. C, '72-5; in Artificial Stone 
Works, Washington, '76-7 ; received from Lafayette B.S. in '75, 
and M.S. in '77 ; admitted to the bar at Chambersburg, Feb. 26, 
'78. , 

Theodore Winfield Frech, Somerville, N. J. — Born at Rar- 
itan, N. J., June, 1851 ; in General Scientific course, Freshman 
year ; merchant and bank cashier. 



Former Students — i8y2. 241 

Jacob S. Gantz, Rapid City, Pennington Co., Dakota. — Born 
at Hagerstown,Md., Sept. 23, 1850; iu college '68-'72 ; on Sept. 6, 
'73, while in a profuse perspiration he plunged into cold water, and 
was paral3zed on both sides, in consequence of wdiich he spent 
the four following yeai's, with fair success, in efforts to regain 
health ; he is now in the high altitudes of the Black Hills, mining. 

James Alexander Gregory, Clearfield. — From Alexandria, 
Pa. ; in General Scientific course two years ; Superintendent of 
Schools of Clearfield county, '75-8; received the degree of A.B. 
from Lafa^'ette in '75. 

Rev. Alfred Edwin Grover, Shelbyville, Tenn. — Born near 
Richmond, Va.; in college Freshman year; Sophomore and Jun- 
ior at Hampden Sidney, and Senior at University of Virginia, 
not graduating by reason of protracted sickness ; studied at Un- 
ion Theological Seminary, Ya., three years, and graduated in '76 ; 
licensed, April, '76; ordained, Nov., '76; preached atBridgeton, 
Mo., one year, and since '77 at Shelbyville. 

Lewis Howell, Shiloh, Cumberland Co., N. J. — Born at Shi- 
loh, Jan. 20, 1847 ; entered Sophomore, but owing to impaired 
sight left in Nov., '69, and has since been agent of a Florida lum 
ber company, teacher and farmer. 

Cornelius Tyson Kratz, Philadelphia. — Lawyer ; born in 
Lower Providence, Montgomery county, Aug. 11, 1850; in col- 
lege Freshman j'car ; taught from '69 to '73, at home and in Col- 
orado ; studied law in the office of Attorney General F. C, Brew- 
ster, a,nd was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia, Sept. 23, '74 ; 
received Republican nomination for Legislature in Montgomery 
county, in '78. 

*Elisha Lewis. — Born in Tuscarora township, Bradford coun- 
ty, December 28, 1849 ; a brother of B. W. Lewis, who graduated 
in '71 ; a month after entering college he was attacked with ty- 
phoid fever, of which he died on Sunday, Oct. 18, '68, at the hour 
when his fellow students were assembled for prayer in the Brain- 
erd Hall. " My memories of him are most pleasing. He was an 
earnest student, and gave promise of a life of usefulness." 

Sherwell Kier McBride, New Alexandria, Westmoreland Go. 
— In college Freshman and part of Sophomore year ; studied 



242 The Men of Laf,rycih\ 

nuMlioino; was assistant in ;i modicMl I'aciillv in (Miicatro; pivfc 
ticed in Texas ; rotnrnod to Pennsylvania in October. '^S. 

Nathan Miiroy McCracikkn, t^latc />/(•/•, Ann.^froixj Co. 
Ijavvycr ; born of Scotch parents in Westmoreland county, near 
Freeport; in college from Sept., ISdS, to Dec, '(ID; studied hn\ 
with Judge Bosfgs, at Kittanning ; adniitti'il to the har of War 
ren county, Iowa, Aug. 15, '73; taught at Des Moines, Iowa, for 
two years ; in military service from Sept.. 'fil, to March, '(If!, in 
78th Regiment Pa. A'olunteers, and in 7tli V. S. Veteran Volun- 
teers, Hancock's 1st Arui}^ Corps. 

IvoiJERT McCiikynf: McDowell, Slatington. — l?orn near Hath, 
Dec. 20, 1850; in college, April, 'GO, to June, '70, Freshman and 
Sophomore years ; was in real estate and insur:ince business in 
New York City in '72; traveled in Furope in '7.") and '74; mer- 
cantile business and slate mining, 

Isaiah McPherson, Toifjanria.— Lawyer ; born at Uerrick- 
ville, Bradford count}^ A\ig. 15, 1847; at tlu- end of Sophomore 
year began the study of law under Judge Morrow, of Towanda, 
and was admitted to the bar May G, '72; elected District At- 
torney in Nov., '77. 

Francis Gailey Morrow, M.D., Warren Ce»frc.~Boru at 
Henick, Bradford county, Aug. 22. 1S45; in college Freshman 
year; graduated at Jelferson Medical College, '72; and since 
practicing in Bradford count3\ 

Edwin Charles Musselman, /SVrr/.s/v;//-;/, /yr//?m.s-/cr6VA— Farm- 
er; born in Strasburg, Nov. 23, 1851 ; in (Jeneral Scientific course 
Freshman year. 

JosiAH Truesdell Noule, A.M., Clai/sville. — Lawyer; born 
in Claysville, July 10, 1852; in college Sophomore year; gradu- 
ated at Washington and Jefferson College, '72 ; taught at Fnon 
Valley, and at Bellaire, Ohio; Professor of Latin and Greek in 
Harlem Springs College; studied law at Washington, Pa., '75-8. 

Charles Northrup. — For a short time a resident of Easton ; 
afterward of Scranton ; in General Scientific course, first term. 
Freshman year. 



Former Students — i8y2. 243 

Joseph Wallace Ogden, Neiv York. — Merchant ; son of Rev. 
Dr. J. M. Ogden, of Clnithum, N. J., where he was born April 
28, 1853; in college, '68-9; the youngest member of the class; 
afterward engaged in mercantile liie— at first in Newark, and 
tlien in New^ York ; in '74, entering the firm of Kendall & Ogden, 
46 Park Place. 

*.Iacob Kirk Pierce. — Born at Londonderry, Chester county, 
Sept. 28,1842; in college part of Freshman year; studied at 
Marion, Iowa, afterwards ; ministry and missionary field in view ; 
died of consumption, at Londonderr}'^, June 24, '71. 

Joseph Patterson Reed, A M..^ Philadelphia. — Editor; born 
at Washington, Pa.; in college from Sept., 1868, to June, '69; 
began journalism at Pittsl)urg in '72 ; received A.M. from La- 
fayette in '76; now editor and publisher of a Financial journal, 
at 1427 Walnut street. 

Rev. William Baird P>.eed, A.M., Lebanon.— Horn at Wash- 
ington, Pa., July 23, 1850; left college in his Junior year, and 
graduated at Princeton Theological Seminary in '74; pastor at 
Cheyenne, Wyoming Ter., one year; L^pper Octorara three 
years; and since '78 pastor of the Presbyterian church at Leban- 
on; received A.M. from Lafayette in '76. 

Frederick Remann, Jr., Vavdalia, III. — Born at Hagerstown, 
111 ; in Special course in 1869, and since '69 in banking and mer- 
cantile business; member of the Illinois State Legislature in '77. 

Alfred Sheirer. — From Hokendauqua; in college Freshman 
year. 

Albert Howell Skinner, New Hampton, Hunterdon Co., N.J. 
— Teacher; born in Hunterdon county, Sept. 28, 1848; in Gen- 
eral Scientific course Freshman year ; then studied a year at 
University of Tirginia; on the engineer corps of the Montrose 
Railroad ; teaching in New Jersey since '72. 

John F. Trippe, Orange, N. J. — In Special course, Senior 
year ; recently studying in England. 

John Benjamin Wilson. — From Savannah, Ga. ; in General 
Scientific course Freshman year. 



244 The Men of Lafayette, 

William A. Petriken Wilson, Huntingdon. — From Hunting- 
don ; in college Freshman and Soi)homore years ; farmer. 

Walter Lowrie Macon Ziegler, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia. — 
Born at Mt. Joy, Jan. 8, 1861 ; entered college Sept., '67, and 
left in middle of Junior in '71 ; graduated at Medical Depart- 
ment of University of Pennsylvania in '74; received A.B. from 
Lafayette in '75; A.M. in '77; Assistant Demonstrator of Sur- 
gery in Universit^^ of Pennsj'lvania, and chief of the Dispensary 
for Diseases of the Ear; address, 2007 Columbia avenue. 



*JoHN PoBERT Breckenridge. — Sou of the late Rev. Robert 
J. Breckenridge, D.D., LL.D., of Danville, Ky. ; after graduating 
at Princeton, in '69, he studied law in Kentucky, and in Sept., 
'71, enrolled himself as a post-graduate student in Civil Engineer- 
ing ; he died in a village on the line between Kentucky and Ten- 
nessee, April 9, '74, 

CLASS OF 1873. 
Edwin Atlee Barber, Wed Chester. — Born at Baltimore, Md., 
Aug. 13, 1861 ; in General Scientific course from Freshman to 
beginning of Senior ; in '74 was assistant geologist and botanist 
in a division of Hayden's Survey ; in '75 with same as correspond- 
ent for A^eio York Herald ; received B.S. at Lafayette in '77; 
anthropologist ; member of the Acadeni}- of Natural Sciences, 
Philadelphia, '76 ; and of American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science, '76 ; delegate to the Congres International des 
Americanistes, at Luxembourg, '77 ; author of "Antiquity of 
Smoking, and the Aboriginal Art of Pipe-making." 

William C. Barrick, Groton, Hunterdon Co., N. J. — Li col- 
lege Freshman year ; studied medicine in Philadelphia. 

John Rarick Bennett, New York City — Lawyer; born in 
Phillipsburg, N. J., Sept. 18, 1852 ; in college '69-'70 ; studied law 
in Trenton, N. J., and Washington, D. C. ; counsellor at law — 
specialty, patents — with office at 237 Broadway. 

James Calvin Bergstresser, Pittsburg. — Editor ; born at 
Elysburg, July 15, 1851 ; left college in Junior year ; in " Coal 
Mountain Colliery," at Mount Carmel, '72, firm of Bergstresser 



Fonncr Students— iSy^. 245 

& Reed; insurance adjuster, '73-4; in May, 'H, he establislied 
The. Insurance World in Philadelphia ; in Nov. removed its pub- 
lication office to Pittsburg, where now located. 

George Newton BevSt, M.D., Stockton^ N, J.— Born in Hunt- 
erdon count}, N. J. ; in college through Freshman, Sophomore, 
and a part of Junior year ; taught at Riegelsville, and Wilming- 
ton, Del. ; graduated at Medical Department of the University of 
Pennsylvania, 'T5. 

Daniel Webster Bruckart, lovm City, Iowa, — Lawyer ; from 
Silver Spring, Cumberland county. Pa. ; in General Scientific 
course until the end of Sophomore year ; studied law in Iowa : 
admitted to the bar in 'T3 ; elected District Attorney of Buchan- 
an count}^ in '73. 

Herbert Thomas 'Bvckly.y ^Easton, — Lawyer ; born in Easton 
in 1852 ; received the first Prize Scholarship in Lafayette, offered 
to graduates of the Easton High School ; left college at the end 
of Junior year ; studied law in Easton and was admitted to the 
bar, Feb. 25, '76. 

John Andrew Canan, Altoona. — Merchant ; born at Holli- 
daysburg, Feb. 11, 1850 ; in college from Sept., '69, to March, 
'71; chief clerk in Altoona Post Office four years; now selling 
coal and building material. 

Charles Alfred Carson — Prom New Salem, Westmoreland 
count}' ; in college two terms of Sophomore year. 

'^William Carpenter Cline. — A son of Dr. George H. Cline, 
of Harmony, N. J., and a candidate for the ministry ; died during 
his Junior 5'ear, April, 1872. 

Ambrose T. Dettre, Karri stoivn.- — Born in Montgomery coun- 
ty, May 27, 1847 ; in college Freshman j-ear ; taught three years ; 
and is now in real estate and insurance business. 

Rev. Edward Dillon, A.M., Woodbury, N. J. — From Phila- 
delphia ; in college Freshman year ; then at University of Penn- 
sjdvania ; studied theolog}' at Auburn Seminary three years, and 
graduated in '77 ; pastor of Presbyterian church at Woodbury; 
received degree of A.M. from Lafaj'ette in '78. 



24 G The Men of Lafayette, 

Frank Drake, Eadoiu — Borii tit Easton, Sept. 29, 1849; in 
General Scientific course, Freshman year; wholesale grocer. 

John Frace, Plncerrille, El Dorado Co.,, CaZ. — Born in Forks 
township, near Easton, Nov. 29, 1848 ; left college during Junior 
year; in mercantile business, and since '74, teaching in California, 
where he is a member of the County Board of Examiners of 

Teachers. 

John White Geary, Cressivell, Lanfi Co., Oregon. — Son of 
Rev. Dr. E. U. Geary, of Albany, Oregon ; born at Fredericks- 
burg, Oliio, Nov. IC), 1850; in college Sophomore 3'ear ; engaged 
for a time on one of the engineer corps of tlie Northern Pacific 
Railroad in Washington Territory ; since farming in Oregon. 

William Bioler Gemmill. — From Fawn Grove, York county ; 
ill General Scientific course, Fresliman year. 

Aaron Kerr Hannen. — From Philadelphia; afterward, but 
not now, a resident of Pittsburg; in college Freshman and 
Sophomore years. 

Charles Chauncey Hommann. — From South River, N. J.; in 
General Scientific course, first term of Freshman year. 

William Henry Hulick, Easton.— Born in Easton, March 3, 
1853 ; in General Scientific course two years ; he was engaged on 
the engineer corps of the Stou}' Creek, and Morris & Essex Rail- 
roads, '11-3; and since '75 in partnership with T. L. Mi Keen, of 
the class of '52, in the management of the Chestnut Grove stock 
farm; Director of the First National Bank since '77, and a mem- 
ber of the Board of Control, '79. 

*Stroui) IIollinshead Jackson. — Son of A. Reeves Jackson, 
M.D., of Stroudsburg, now of Chicago; in General Scientific 
course first two terms of Freshman year ; studied medicine in 
Chicago, and is reported to have died quite recently. 

Samuel Laughlin. — From Philadelphia ; in college" a part of 
Freshman year. 

John Howard Lott, M.D., Easton. — Born at Orangeville in 
1853 ; in college two years; graduated at Jefferson Medical Col- 
lege, '78, and became an assistant surgeon in the United States 
military service in Sept., '78. 



Former Students— 18'/^. 24"? 

ErjWAiil) Fendall Lummib, C.E., J'hiladelphm.- — Boin at Co- 
Oarville, Cumbeiland county, N. J., Marcli 21, 1851 ; from Jan. to 
March, '71, in Civil Engineering course ; and afterwards gradu- 
ated as C. E. from the Polytechnic College, Philadelpliia; engaged 
since July, '78, on the i\ tlanlic and Great Western Railroad; and 
is now of the firm of Fowler & Lummis, Civil Engineers, 43(7 
Walnut Street. 

KoHKiiT W. '!S\ Aiio^^ Sfiiji'jjen.Hhurg. — In college Freshman year ; 
graduated at Lehigh University in '70 ; and now a student of 
Physics in Johns llopkints University. 

John PiObert McIntire, New York City. — Born in the ^city, 
July 18, 1850; in General Scientific course, Freshmanyear ; since 
Sept., '70, he has been a i"eal estate agent ; office at Xo. 3 Broad- 
way. 

Nathan Ghiek Mooue, A.B., I'eoriu. III. — I>awyer ; born at 
Cherry Tree, Indiana county, Jan. 20, 1853; in college Sopho- 
more and Junior years ; left because of failing health ; kept music 
store in I-a Crosse, Wis., '72-6 ; admitted to the bar in Wisconsin, 
Oct., '77; in Illinois, Jan. 3, '78; received the degree of A.B. 
from Lafayette in '78. 

William Morgan. — From South River, K. J.; in Scientific 
course; left at the end of Freshman year; graduated at Rutgers 
College in '73. 

William H. Parkee. — From Carlisle ; in General Scientific 
course a term in Freshman year. 

Samuel Clarence Plank, Boiling Springs, Cwmberland Co. 
— Born at Allen, Nov. 21, 1850 ; Freshman year at Gettysburg; 
Sophomore in Lafaj'ctte ; and since Sept., '71, a druggist. 

William Blair Reed, Ch amber f^hurg. — Born at Chambers- 
burg, July 9, 1851 ; in General Scientific course, Freshman and 
Sophomore years ; proprietor of the Cbambersburg Nurseries, 
for culture of trees and roses. 

William David Reiley, Phillipuburg, N. J. In college 

a part of Freshman year ; in mercantile business. 



248 The Men of Lafayette. 

Abner Lloyd Rockwell, Munroelon^ Brailford Co. — Bom 
nt Mouroetoii ; in General Sciiajlific course, Freslnnan year ; he 
assisted in taking the Census of 1810, and has since been engaged 
in mercantile and milling life, first at the Bernice colliery, and 
on his father's decease, in Nov., "15, succeeded him in the latter 
business at Monroeton. 

Aleck Van Court Sciienck.— From Craid)uiy, X. J.; in (col- 
lege a part of Freslunuu year. 

*AuGUSTUS Thobndike Smith. — From Marshall, Texas; died 
nt college, in Sophomore year, Nov. '20, 1870. 

Henry De Witt Smith, C.E., Mdi-xJinll, Texas. — Born at 
Jersey City, N. J., Nov. 11, 1852; in Sophomore class of Civil 
Engineering course ; studied at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 
Troy, N. Y., '71 5, where he received degree of C.F.; is now in 
Land Department of Texas and Pacific Railroad. 

Wilson Cunningham Sterlinq, New Derry^Wcdmari'Jatid Co. 
— In college, 18(')9-''73; since, teaching. 

Jacob Steinman Stewart, Easlon. — Fiawyer; born at Alex- 
andria, March 3, 1849; in college, '68-'71, Freshman and. Sopho- 
more years ; taught at Caiv(!rsville one year. 'r)9-'70 ; admitted 
to the bar of Northampton county, Dec. 7, '74, and of New Jersey', 
Feb., '77. 

William Jones Stewart, Jr., Duncannon. — Born at Duncan- 
non, Feb. 2, 1852; in Civil Engineering course, Sept., '(>9, to 
March, '72, and with class of '74, from Sept., '73, to Feb., '74 ; 
civil engineer, insurance agent and merchant. 

Rhamanthus Melville Stocker, Ha ml in Ion,, Wayne Co. — 
Born in Salem township, Wayne county, Oct. 5, 1848 ; in Gen- 
eral Scientific course. Freshman year ; farmed and taught; for 
four years Principal of Jermyn Graded School, Ijackawanna 
county. 

* William Hart Thompson, — Born in Fasten, Dec. 0,1852; 
in General Scientific course, 'G9-'70 ; died. May 20, '71. 



Former Students — iSj^. 249 

CLASS OF 1874. 

IIenuy Aller Aller, Lebanon^ N. ./. — Born at Pleasantville, 
Ta., Jan. 10, 1851 ; in college until Senior, then left in order to 
teach; subsequently in class of "75, but did not complete his 
course. 

Charles Julius Beciidolt, CE., West FhUadelj)hia. — Civil 
engineer; born at Carlsruh(i, Baden, Geiinany, April 20, 1852; 
in engineering course duiing Freshman year ; graduated at Le- 
high University, '75 ; assistant engineer Pennsylvania Railroad ; 
address, 107 South 34th Street, West Philadelphia. 

Erastus Starnar Bloom. — Born at Upper Holland, N. J., 
June 2, 1852; in college two terms of Freshman year; for a 
number of years a druggist, and now in mercantile business. 

Cicero Brodiiead, M. D., Delaware Water Gap. — Born at 
Delaware Water Gap, Nov. 13, 1851; in Chemical course, first 
term of Freshman year; graduated at Medical Department of Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, '75, with honorable mention for Thesis. 

Nat Chu. — Born in Bangkok Siam, in 1852, a protege of Rev. 
S. G. McFarland, D.D,, missionary of the Presbyterian Board ; 
Chu was a diligent and successful student through the Freshman 
year, when the state of his sight compelled him to return to Siam. 

Aaron Jambs Clarke, Brooklyn, N. Y. — Born in New York 
City in 1848; in General Scientific course, Fieshman year; in 
mercantile business. 

Harry Cook, Philadelphia. — Born in Easton, Oct. 26, 1853 ; 
in General Scientific course, Freshman year ; clerk for the Union 
Transfer Co. 

Frank Nimocks Day, Hazleton. — Book-keeper and dispatcher ; 
born in Philadelphia, March 2, 1854; pursued the Engineering 
course from Jan. to June, '71 ; with Pardee, Sons & Co., Mount 
[feasant Colliery. 

William Deats, M.D., Ph.D. — Born at Middaghs, Northamp- 
ton county, Jan. 30, 1847 ; in Engineering course during Fresh- 
man year ; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '77 ; pursued 
Auxiliary course in the University of Pennsylvania, receiving 
the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in '77. 



250 The Men of Lafayette. 

Charles Richardson Dilworth, Pi^ii>&i/r(/. — Merchant; born 
at Pittsburg in 1854 ; in General Scientific course, Freshman 
year, '70-1. 

Lawrence Dilworth, Pittsburg. — Merchant; born at Pitts- 
burg in 1852 ; in Chemical course, Sept., '70, to Dec, '71. 

William Wilkins Dorris, Euntingdon. ~ha.wy er ; born at 
Huntingdon, March 1, 1852 ; in General Scientific course. Fresh- 
man 3'ear ; admitted to the bar, April 13, '76. 

liATiMER Banks Doty, Mifflintou-n. — Banker ; born at Mifflin- 
town in 1853 ; in college, Sept., '70, to April, '73. 

Addison Stewart Elliott, Gallensburg, — Dentist ; born at 
Callensburg, Feb. 2, 1849 ; in college part of first two years. 

Rev. Robert Henry Fulton, Lebanon Church, Allegheny Go, 
— Born in Indiana county, 1846 ; served as a private in Company 
H, 54th Penns3^1vania Regiment; in college, Freshman year; 
subsequently at Princeton and Amherst, receiving there an Ora- 
torical Prize ; graduated at Western Theological Seminary in '77. 

James Buchanan Gilfillan, Cochransrille, Cheater Co. — 
Tanner and leather merchant ; born near Cochransville, Dec. 8, 
1850 ; in Civil Engineering course until Dec, '72. 

Adam Gradwohl, Ea^ton. — Teacher ; born in Easton, October 
31, 1851 ; in General Scientific course two years. 

Dudley Wells Gregg, Binghamton, N. Y. — Manufacturer ; 
born at Susquehanna, Susquehanna county, July 22, 1852 ; in 
Engineering course, Sept., '70, to Dec, '71 ; draughtsman on Erie 
Railroad two years ; since '74, in business in Binghamton. 

Robert Henderson Hamilton, Altoona Born at Altoona, 

April II, 1849 ; in Civil Engineering course, Sept., '70, to Dec, 
'73; taught and was engaged in engineering; now train agent on the 
HoUidaysburg and -Morrison's Cove Branch of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad. 

Samuel Boyd Hepburn, Goshen, N. Y. — Born in Hampton- 
burg, Orange county, N. Y., Feb. 6, 1854 ; in Civil Engineer- 
ing course from Sept.. '70, to June, '72 ; merchant. 



Former Students — iSj^.. 251 

Rev. John Hereon, Atlantic, Iowa. — Born in Harrison count}-, 
Ohio, July 19, 1851 ; graduated in Scientific Department at 
Washington and Jefferson College, Penna., '69 ; in college from 
Sept., 'to, to Dec, '71 ; graduated at Princeton Theological Sem- 
inary, '76 ; pastor Presb^-terian church, Ontonagon, Mich.; since 
June, '77, pastor Presbyterian church at Atlantic. 

Daniel Graffius Heylmun, Qlean^ N. Y. — Druggist ; born at 
Williamsport, Pa., April 21, 1851 ; in General Scientific course, 
Sept., '70, to June, '72. 

Edward Hickey, Athens, Bradfoi'd Co. — Draughtsman ; born 
at Geneva, N. Y., Feb. 13, 1853; in Engineering course, Sept., 
'70, to Oct., '71 ; since April, '72, draughtsman for Kellogg & 
Maurice, bridge builders. 

George Mover Holt, Easton. — Born in South Easton, March 
26, 1854 ; in General Scientific course, Sept., '70, to Ma}-, '73 ; 
discount clerk in the First National Bank, now general book- 
keeper. 

Moses Hampton Houseman, Pittsburg. — Lawyer; born in 
Rostraver township, Westmoreland county, January 2, 1850 ; in 
General Scientific course, Sept., '70, to Dec, '71 ; admitted to the 
bar, March 28, '74. 

Alfred Freeman Irving. — From Orange, N. J. ; came from 
College of New Jersey, and pursued a special course, second and 
third terms. Sophomore. 

Frank Lambert — From New York city ; in General Scien- 
tific course, one term of Freshman year. 

Clarence Fruit Leidy, Le Mars, Plymouth Co., Iowa. — Edi- 
tor ; born at Danville, Pa., April 2, 1852 ; in college from Sept., 
'70, to June, '71 ; associate editor of the Clinton Bepublican,^^S- 
'76 ; editor of the Le liars Liberal since Dec , '76. 

Robert McConaughy, M.D., Scottdale, Westmoreland Co. — 
Born at Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county, April 6, 1852 ; in 
General Scientific course, Sept., '70, to June, '72 ; graduated at 
Jefferson Medical College, '75. 



SfpJ The Mnt of I.ahivcttc. 

KUANK ClMlMINS Mt'CoWN, /V///(i'</(7/'/M'(/ MlM'cllMllI ; Ixtl'll .'it 

I'\'iirvi«'w, Il.Mnroi'U (Humt V, W. \ m,, April 'i(l, ISfiiJ; in (u-iiiMnl 
Si'iiMil ilic «'i>iirs(>, Ki-(>slm\.MH yt-iii-. in tiu>ic:mlil(> linn of A. K, 
McCown \ (%>,, {VIW M:irU(>t. StnH>t, 

Kk\. llvKi.w (!i',i>iu)K Mkm^knii.vi.i,, riUshiirii.— Vnn-n :\l 
Co.Mtosvillt-, April 1_', I S.M ; Ms^oriato oilitor of tho Spriiujfirltl 
(MassJ ln-i>ul>liv(i>t : in colloiio Worn Sopt,, '70, to .Innc, "II ; 
or.'uInMtotl Ml Wcsloni 'IMii><>Io>:;irMl SiMninnrv in '7 t ; lic«>nsi>(l by 
Clu'slci- I'ii'sIm ItMV, .Iiiin', '7 1, Mnil onlMincil l)v I'mt NVnyni- 
I'ri'shytoiy, M.-iy, '7;'! ; pnslor Tiiiid rrcsbyltMiMii I'linrch, Ft. 
\V;iyni\ Intl., 1'\>1)., 7;">, lo Pec, '77 ; Sixth rivsl)yl«Mi:in cIuutIi, 
Tit Isbnii:-, siiuH' .hui., ■7s ; <K'li'ti;ilt> iVoni tlu> I'lcshytcriiin (Jen- 
iM'.-il As-i('n\l>lv (i>tlu" Kcl'tMinrd Syni>(l of l^'iMnt'o, '7S. 

1>AVU> MoouK, Ahwaudna, liuntnujdon Co. — l>orn .-it Aloxnn- 
dri.'i, Angust 11, ISIS; in (JoiU'ral Si-ioutilio course, Kroslun.-ui 
y»':u- ; iniMcIiMnt . 

John ^V^M,l'^>Ull Mi'Mri'.K. -I'loni lU'tlilclu in ; in ({iMicnil Soi- 
cntilii' fouisc, tirst t<Min ol' !• i\>sliin:in yo.-ir ; now in iron works in 
Ihintinsitlon ronnt v. 

■^^.losKrn i'lKuri; N KVi\, M.I>, l?i>rii :ii Shippt-nshnrs;, Oct. 'J 1, 
1S;M ; in t'ollogo l'"r(>slnn;in .'nul Sophomore yonrs ; gnnluMtod ;it 
Medie.'il nopartnient o( l' nivoisity ol" riMinsylvanin, '7'i ; loeatcil 
in pr.'U'tieo in l"':istoi\, wiun- he tiied, M;vreh 17, 7S. 

.li>iiN Sam'ouu Noni.K, F.aston. V'>o\\\ .-it F.-iston, M.-ireh *2, ISiM; 
in tJenenil Seienlitle eonrse, Sept., '(IS, to '()i), ami from Sept., '7(>, 
to etirly part o( '71 ; student of law and NiMary rnhlie. 

Natuaniki. Marion Ouk, M/// is- />((/•/(•.- Lawyer ; horn at 
Dallas, liU/erne eounty, Pee. I'J, ISiM ; in eolle^e threi' years; 
admittt'd to tin- har at ^Vill^es-l>arrl^ Sept. L\'5, '7r> ; Ke]>nhliean 
tiotuinee t'or Sta(i> Senat(>r, in l.eiiis:,h eounty, in 77. 

SlDNKY TKitKiNs, \orH'{\lk\ Ohio. — lM>rn in (>ni>nd.Mi;:i N'al- 
U\V, N. v., in 1S;">1>; in (General ISciontitk' eourse. Freshman year ; 
now mail a^ent. 

Fkank Howman 1\kki>, Clcartu'Ui. — \^on\ at ClearHeld, April 
^(>, lSr»o; in (general Seicntillo course puit of Froshuuvu year, 



and nlYcrvVMnl in Spcc'nl c mc, '72 .'{ ; since '7.'!, l)nsin('HH nmnn- 

m'f of tlic liiin ol" r.ii^lcr, ^'(>nnJJ; k. Ilccd, CoundcrH jmd niiM-liiniHls. 

( J i:<)it«)K r»i';N.i.\i\HN II kvnoi-i»s, y/z/y/M//////, Lii cmr Co. Horn 
:il, l'l\in<ml,li in I Sf»;! ; in (i!cnti:d Scientific conisc two Icimih ol" 
'7(t :ind '71 ; cnicicd Lcliij^li rnivciNit.y ; now in nlc^<^•lnl,il(! ItUHi- 
ncss. 

.loiiN IJii'i'i.r.it, Kkvn(iM>s, U'i//,(n-Jl(irri\ Ji.'iwycr; liuni ;il. 
W'ilkcs-I5:iiic, All<r. T), IHf)] ; in ei.ilcnc IVoni ( )<■!., '70, In Kcl.., 
'72 ; julniiticd lo llic bur, Nov., '7r». 

TiioMAH McK r.KN IJiKdi'.i,, AV/.s/f;//.— iJoin in M.-iston, Oct. ."'.I, 
iHTj^J; in («cnci;d S»'icMt-ilic coniHC, l<'icslini;in .y<'.'i.r ; clerk iiiid 
l)()(»k-kee|)er, riiilli|)slinii; (N. .1.) Sl.ovc Woiks. 

ANinilow |)(n;«ii,.ASs Sai.kki.ii, Mdinh dhuvlc- In Civil Mn<rin- 
cerinfT comse, l*'i-esliiM:in iukI Sophomore yeiiiH. 

'I^IOMAK l''AI'/lNlli;it SaI.KKMi, Hf/lilrh (!llUll/>-. lUnil !Vl, MlllKtll 

(Minnk, Mnrt-li 25, Isn't ; in dleiieiMl S<'ient,ilic course, P'reslininii 
yeiir ; from '7 1-7, vvns eniployefl ns iliMn<^dil,sinnn ;ind inju'liinist 
at MiMuli (JImnk. 

(vMN'i'oN WiOAVKH. SanIit, Sfochivlouni ^ Nirrihdinpl.on (U>. — 
r>()iii in liowei- Monnl, I'x'tliel, April 0, IH47; in v.oWi'y^v Se))t.., 
'70, t,o !>(•(■., '70 ; irni keeper. 

I)AVil» Mi'iiiiAiM Saykk, Loikj /\nnl^ Arfcfwsiin Co., Ar/r. — 
Stock nier(!li:int ; born nt li(!xington, Ky., April IT), 1X51; in (rol- 
\r<ri' from Sept., '70, to April, '71 ; i^ruduiil-ed iit Wnsliintfton and 
Ii(!(! University, Vn., '7.'{. 

David Sohknok, Nr.V) York, — i>orn ;i,t Danbniy, (!onn., April 
14, IH54; in (;oll((<r(! Sept., '70, to jNov., '70 ; nicrcli.'int ; resides 
tit 22« Kast I2tli Htr(!(!t. 

MiOHAKI, Jonah SlIAl-TKii, 'rac.kr.rljni^ IIit/ch T/o,- In (;oll(;^(; 
l*'reslirnan iind Sophonion; yejiiH ; now :i, liiw student, in Kcjidinj.^ 
under his ))rr>tlicr, Mdwin Shnlter, of the; (;1mhs of '(i2. 

(Ji.AVTON K KiU'KR Smitu, I'liiladvlphia. — l>orn at ('h(!stnut 
Hill, .Iiinniiry 20, 1852; in ('hemieal course rrf)m Sejit., '(JM, to 
June, '72; graduated at I'hiladelphia College of I'luirmacy ; ro- 
coivcd A.li. from Tiafay(!tte in '77. 



254 The Men of Lafayette. 

AiiTHUii Snyder, Vhilli'itiihurij^ N. J. — Born in Easton, Au^. 
21, 1852 ; in General Scientific course from Sept., 'fi9, to June,'?!. 

Edward Nicholas Stewart, Indiana, Pa. — Born in 1854; 
came from College of New Jersey-, and pursued General Scien- 
tific course the last term of Ereshman year; in '78 was with Che 
Collins expedition in Brazil, engaged in railroad construction. 

George Rippie Stewart, Pittsburg. — Born at Utica, Ohio, 
October 11. 1847 ; reared at Academia; in college only Sopho- 
more year ; left because of impaired health, and has ever since 
been a civil engineer at Pittsburg. 

George Washington Stewart, Duncannon. — Born at Dun- 
cannon, April 27, 1854; in General Scientific course, Sept. to 
Dec, '70; clerk. 

James John Sullivan, Philadelphia. — Born in Philadelphia, 
August 0, 1850 ; in General Scientific course Jan. to March, '71 : 
with John Sullivan and Sons, manufacturers of Cotton Narrow 
Goods, 9th and Montgomery Avenue. 

John Anderson Sutton, AUrghevij City. — Born at Indiana, 
Pa., June (i, 1853; in General Sci(intific course. Freshman and 
Sophomore years; in mercantile business since Oct., '72. 

John Walker Sutton, //7rfian«, /'a. -Born at Indiana, Jan. 
24, 1852 ; in General Scientific course, '70-1 ; :ind since March 
13, '71, engaged in paper manufacture; treasurer of the State 
Normal School. 

George Albert Thompson, Phrenix, Baltimore Co., Md. — Bovn 
at Warren, Baltimore count}', Md, May 15, 1851 ; in Engineering 
course, Sept., '70, to spring of '72 ; U. S. Consul to Stettin, Ger- 
many, March, '73, to Nov., '74 ; student of medioine at the Med- 
ical Department of the University of the city of New York. 

George Cyrus Tilden, C.E., M.E., New York. — Civil and 
mining engineer ; born in Brooklyn, N. Y., in 1852; in college 
as a member of '74 and '75, April, '71, to Oct., '72 ; graduated 
at the Columbia College School of Mines, New York, in '70. 

Thomas F. Wells, Scranton. — Lawyer ; born at Dundaff, Sus- 
quehanna county, Sept. 17, 1853 ; in General Scientific course. 



Former Students — 18^4. 256 

Fveslmiaii j-ear ; studied law in Scrantoii, :ind was admitted to 
the bar Sept., '75 ; Sunday school superintendent and a trustee of 
Washburn street Presbyterian ehureh. 

William Hammill Wioton.— Born in Phi'adelphia ; in Gen. 
eral Scientific course, Freshman year ; afterwaid graduated at 
Pennsylvania Military Institute, Chester, in '73 ; now in the coal 
business in Schuylkill couut3\ 

John James Williams. — Son of Rev. J.B.Williams, of White 
Lake, Sullivan county, N. Y. ; came from Cornell University, N. 
Y., and remained Sopliomore and part of Junior year ; afterward 
taught in Newark. N. J. 

John Clayton Wright, Farmington^ St. Francois Co., Mo. — 
Born at Mifflin, Juniata county. Pa., Jan. 7, 1852; in General 
Scientific course, Sept., '70, to June, '71 ; at Cornell University, 
Sept., '71, to June, '73 ; farmer. 

Rev. Nomer Junkin Wright, Fatontown, Monmouth Co., N.J. 
— Born at Mount Pleasant, Hunterdon county, N. J., Jan. 16, 
1852 ; graduated at Drew Theological Seminary, Madison, N. J., 
in '74 ; member of the New Jersey M. E. Conference. 

Frederick William Kelly, A.M., Ph.D., Montreal, Canada. 
— From Halifax, Nova Scotia ; graduated at Cornell University 
in '73, and there received the degrees of A.M. and Ph.D.; a resi- 
dent graduate, studying Philology in '73-4, and now a teacher, 
Montreal, Canada. 

George Diehl Stahley, A.M., M.D., HarrUhurg. — Born in 
Easton, Sept. 9, 1850 ; graduated at Pennsylvania College in '71 ; 
a post-graduate student in chemistry, '73-4 ; graduated at Medi- 
cal Department of the University of Pennsylvania in '75 ; since 
May, '75, assistant physician in State Ijunatic Hospital. Mem- 
ber of Northampton County Medical Society ; permanent mem- 
ber of the State Medical Society ; Fellow of the American Acad- 
emy of Medicine. 

CLASS OF 1875. 

Walter Frederick Bainbridge, Philadelphia. — Merchant ; 
born at Mount Holly, N. J., Nov. 17, 1854 ; in college Freshman 
and Sophomore years ; merchant, at corner 8th and Spring Gar-' 
den streets, since Jan., '74. 



256 The Men of iM/avette. 

JitUN Hknrv lihAOK, I*/t i I (iile I pill (I .—liovn at. Ivicliiiioiul, I'liil- 
julelphin, Sept. 7, 1853; in colleg*.' FroHliinaii 3»':u- ; oiiuunentMl 
paiiit.ci', at "l"2l\ Naudain street. 

IvKiisEY Smith 1)LAKK, A.M., New I'o/-/'. — TeacluT ; horn at 
(hanvilU', Putniim county, 111., July 2, 1848 ; in Sophonune iiiul 
part of .Iniiior years; gniduateii at Oberlin ColK'fic, Auii,., '7;") ; 
J*rol"essor of Matlu'niaties in Wheaton OolU-j^c, 111., one yi'ar; 
taugiit in NVIiite I'lains, N. Y., and now eonduets a (Uas.sieal 
School at ()78 Lexington Avenue, Ni!\v Yoik (•ity. 

W'li-iJA.M MdOLDiiK BoAi,, Xoii/iuinhrrldiiil. — 'readier; (Voni 
]Miltt)n; in college Fieslinian year; taught in Sunhniy and Nor- 
thumberland ; County Superintendent of Tublic ScIido's since 
May, "18. 

Joseph Miiakklky, Bordentown. N. J. — l>orn near IMiiHi[)s- 
burg, N. .1,, Feb. 20, 1852; in Ueneral Scientific coursr>, '71-4; 
also assistant in IMiysical Laboratory of Lafa^'i'tte ; received the 
degree of i>.S. from Lafayette iit '78; graduated in the IMiiladel- 
phia Collegi' of IMiarmaey in '70, receiving the Maekinall gold 
medal for prodciency in chemistry. 

IvKV. Carlos 1>ransi{y, Hoijota, N. .l.--l>oni in Hogota, Aug. 
7, 1848 ; taught Mission School there, '(iO -U ; graduated at State 
Normal School, Trenton, N. .)., '71 ; in college three yi'ars, until 
the end of Junior ; graduated at Union Theologiital Sc^minar}', 
'77; licensed May, '77; translated into Spanish Kyle's l']x|)osi- 
tory Thoughts on the Gospels ; at present j)reaching at l>c Soto, 
Jetferson county, Missouri. 

Otto J>uaumuller, Atlanta^ (hi. — In college Freshman ycai', 
tlu-n for a time at Coinell University. 

Hknuy Hrinton IjiioRvvAiiTKR, Wcst 6Vj,<'.s7(?r. — Baukcr ; born 
at West Chester, March 14, 1854; in college, '71-5. 

James Mohan Carotiiers, 3f///!o/j.— Meichant ; born at Shrews- 
bury, York county, Feb. 27, 1855; in college Freshman year ; 
in the firm of Iloush, Ranp & Co. 

WiiiiiiAM Abraham Cortrioht, Maiich Chunk. — Born 
at Mauch Chunk, June 12, 1855 ; in college Freshman year only ; 



Former Students — iSyf^. 257 

graduated at Wyoinijig ("otruncrcial (Jollegt;, '73 ; AKniHtant Sii- 
)K'iiiitoiident Og<leu Mine Kailioad (.'o., '7li-0 ; gmduuted at IMiil- 
adelphia College of Dental Siirgciy in '7'K 

Hkniiy Mathews Duliois, Philadelphia. — Lawyer; (jorn at 
Doylestown, July 15, 1852; in college Fn-Klinian, Sopiioniorc! and 
.Junior yearn; admitted to the Ijar of Huckts county, Aug. 7, '70 ; 
admitted to pi-actice in I*hiladelj>liia comity, Nov. 18, '70 ; Notaiy 
Public and lawyer at 227 South Sixth street. 

IfowARD Fackkntiiall, M.D., PUiHlon. — Born at Durham, 
HuclcK county, .Jan. . '5, 1854; irj college Sophomore year ; gradu- 
ated at Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, '70- 
practiced two years at liloomsbury, N. J. 

John Auamh Fell, M.D., liuckiwjham^ liucka County. — IJorn 
at Buckingham, in 1850 ; in college through l-'reHliman year ; 
graduated at Medical Department of University of J'ennsylvania, 
'74 ; was for a time Re8id(;nt I'hysician to City Charity Jfospital, 
I^hiladelphia. 

Jamkh Woods l-'iNnLEV, AUoona — Jiorn at Frankstown, iilair 
county, May 4, 1849 ; machinist four years, then one year Sopho- 
more in college ; traveled in California and Mexico, and since '73 
engaged in insurance business. 

Samuel W. Flemjno, JIarriifburg. — Merchant and printer; 
}>orn in Harrisburg, Dec. 11, 184i^; in Scientific course until the 
middle of Senior year; Notary Public, '75 to present time. 

Jamek GiLiiEttT (iuiUH, Norwal/c, Ohio. — Born at Norwalk, 
Aug. 7, 1852; in General Scientific course, Freshman and Sopho- 
more years, leaving in May, '73, to lx;come editor of the Norwalk 
Jtejiector ; has held various local offices. 

George Hamel, Ju., Jenkinlown — Merchant; in cioUe^a Fresh- 
man year. 

John Lyon Hamill, Jioahharfj. — Mercantile business ; in col- 
''^ge Freshman year. 

♦Edgar Allen HEiiEELiNG.— Born at Lehighton, Pa.; at end 
of Freshrnan year was drowned while bathing in the Delaware, 
June 22, '72. 



258 The Men of Lafayette. 

Robert Jackson, New York. — Lawyer; born Feb. 28, 1854; 
in college Freshman ^^ear ; taught several years ; graduated at 
Columbia College Law School, and was admitted to the bar. May, 
'78 ; office, 216 Broadway. 

RoLLiN Scott Manley, Gage., N. Y. — Born at East Canton, 
Bradford county. Pa., July 23, 1853; in college Freshman and 
Sophomore, until failure of eyes ; now a merchant and dealer in 
grain at Bellona station, his post office being Gage,Yates county, 
N.Y. 

Charles Hyde Mann, M.D., Bridgeport. — Born in Bucks Co., 
Pa.; Aug. 3, 1852 ; left college Dec.,'Yl ; graduated at Jefferson 
Medical College, '74. 

James Meiley, Lebanon. — From Lebanon ; in college Fresh- 
man year. 

William Paul Mifflin, McDonough^ Del. — In college two 
years, in classes of '75 and '76 ; was law student with Hon. T. F. 
Bayard ; now farming. 

Charles Howard Milligan, Greenville, Tenn. — Civil engin- 
eer ; born at Greenville, Oct. 4, 1850 ; in General Scientific course 
from Jan., '71, to June, '73; since May, '74, he has been a civil 
engineer, and since '77, has held the position of V. S. assistant 
engineer on the Tennessee river improvements. 

Austin Craig Norwood, Augusta, Kan. — Farmer ; born at 
Irvington, N. J., Jan, 28, 1 854 ; his youth was spent in Iowa ; in 
General Scientific course, Freshman and Sophomore years, '71-4. 

Henry Emmanuel Otto, Stuttgart, Germany. — Son of a Ger- 
man florist in West Chester, Pa. ; in college two years ; residence 
in AUeen street, Stuttgart, Wirtemberg ; student in Polytechnic 
school in that city, 

William Wilson Pursell, M.D., White House, N. J. — Born 
near Wilkes-Barre, Sept. 9, 1849; left college in Freshman year ; 
graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '74. 

Henry William Reynolds, Meadville. — Fi-om Meadville; in 
college Freshman year. 



Former Students — iSys- 259 

Charles Scates Riddell, Muncy. — Teacher; born in Susque- 
lumna township, Lycoming count^^, March 24, 1851 ; in college 
Freshman year ; taught at Jersey Shore ; Principal Lycoming 
County Normal School since '74. 

Rev. James Ferguson Robertson, Satigatuck^ Conn. — Grad- 
uated at Dickinson College, Pa., in 1875; minister in JS'ew York 
Conference M. E. church. 

John Elliott Ross, Shickshinmj. — Law student ; born in 
England, April 2, 1847; in college two years; taught in Mt. 
Carmel and Milton High School until '78 ; now studying law and 
teaching at Shickshinny. 

*Charles Wesley Sausser. — Born in Massillon, Ohio, Sept. 
28, 1853 ; entered college from Merchantville, N. J., and died of 
meningitis near the close of his Freshman year, June 2, '72. 

Thomas Dolan Sayre, Monticello^ Lewis Co. Mo. — Born near 
Monticello, Dec. 29, 1854; in college through Freshman, Sopho- 
more and Junior years ; has a stock farm of 1,500 acres. 

George Edward Silver, Churchville, Md. — Farmer ; born 
near Churchville, April 5, 1854; in college Freshman and Sopho- 
more years ; taught in Dublin, Md., '73-5; since '75, farming. 

William Finney Silver, St. Louis. — Clerk ; born near Church- 
ville, Md., April 4, 1854 ; in college Freshman and Sophomore 
years ; employed in dry goods house of Scruggs, Vanderwood & 
Barney. 

John Charles Stuckert, Bristol. — Lawyer ; born in Bucks 
county, June 23, 1852; in college two years; admitted to the 
bar of Bucks county, Feb., '76. 

Sei Ychi Tegima, 2'okio, Japan. — In college Freshman year, 
when, in May, 1872, he became interpreter to the visiting Embas- 
sy and went to Europe ; Commissioner in Japanese Educational 
Department at Centennial Exhibition of '76. 

George Cyrus Tilden, M.E., C.E., New York City. — Gradu- 
ated at Columbia College School of Mines, 1876, and now with 
Dennis & Mairs, civil engineers, Evening Poet building, New 
York City. 



260 The Men of Lafayette. 

Alfred Edward Turner, West Philadelphia. — Telegraph Op- 
erator for Pennsylvania Railroad, at Girard avenue station ; in 
college Sophomore and Junior years. 

Robert Fulton Weiss, Los Angelas., Cal. — Vine culturer; in 
college one term of Freshman year. 

Francis Raymond Welles, Chicago., III. Clerk ; born at 

Athens, Pa., Aug. 18, 1854; one term at Lafayette, and gradu- 
ated at University of Rochester, "J 5 ; engaged in Western Elec- 
tric Manufacturing Co., 220 Kinzie street, Chicago. 

John William White, Kentucky^ — Step-son of the late Rev. 
Dr. Robert J. Breckinridge, of Danville, Ky. ; was in college part 
of Freshman year ; not now at Danville, and not heard from. 

William Henry Wright, Bristol. — Born at Bristol, Dec. 16, 
1854 ; in college from "Jl to March, '72 ; ticket receiver at West 
Philadelphia depot, Pennsylvania Railroad, 



W. C. Heckman, A.m. — From Hanover, Ind. ; son of Presi- 
dent Heckman, of the class of '45 ; enrolled as a law student in 
't5. 

W. A. Miller. — From Topton, Berks county; a law student 
in '75. 

Thomas Clemence Moffatt,A.M., Tl^/!eaton,7Z/.— Born at Wayne, 
Dupage county, HI., March 18, 1850; graduated at Wheaton Col- 
lege in '73 ; Tutor there in '73-4 ; as a resident graduate he 
studied Philology in Lafa^^ette in the winter of '74-5; and has 
since been Professor of Latin and Greek in Wheaton College. 

Charles H. Skillman. — From Lambertville, N. J. ; enrolled 
as a law student in 1875. 

CLASS OF 1876. 

Edward Harrison Anderson, Bedford. — From Bedford ; in 
college first two terms of Freshman year. 

Joseph Howell Andrews, Pittston, Luzerne Co. — His home 
was at Phillipsburg, N. J., where he was born, Jan. 9, 1855 ; by 
ill health and the death of his father his course was interrupted 



Former Students — 18^6. 201 

in the beginning of Senior year ; lie has taught, and lield the posi- 
tion of collector. 

Carlos Enrique Armijo, Albuquerque^ New Mexico. — From 
Chihuahua, Mexico ; in General Scientific course, Freshman year ; 
in mercantile business. 

Horace Snyder Bachman, Easton.— Born in Easton, Dec. 14, 
1856; in college Freshman year; studying law. 

George Gilbert Barnes, Chu7-chvUle, Md.- — Born at Church- 
ville, Oct. 6, 1854; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; 
graduated at Princeton College in "1 1, and since, a student in 
Princeton Theological Seminar}'. 

Harry Clay Bubb, Williamsport. — Born at Montoursville, 
March 13, 1856; in General Scientific course two years; in mer- 
cantile business since '74. 

Kobert Finney Caldwell, Lawrenceville, N. J. — Born at 
Milton, Pa , 1854 ; in Special course four terms ; since Jan., '74, 
he has taught a year ; then clerk in a bank. 

George H. Campbell, Adrian, 3Hch,— Clerk ; born at Bur- 
lington, Vt., Dec. 19, 1862 ; home, while in college, was Wood- 
bury, N. J. ; in General Scientific course part of Freshman year; 
since, has been a railroad clerk ; now at Adrian. 

Edward Rutherford Conant From Elizabeth, N. J. ; in 

General Scientific course Freshman year. 

WiLKiNG Britton CooLEY, ^as^on.— Born in Easton; received 
from Easton High School the prize scholarship in Lafayette ; 
left in Junior year to become cashier of the Easton Post-oflSce ; 
clerk in Money Order division of the General PostoflSce Depart- 
ment, Washington, D. C, since July 12, '78. 

Frederick George Corbin, New Milford, Susguehomna Co. — 
Born at EUenville, Ulster county, N. Y., Feb. 4, 1856; in Gener- 
al Scientific course, '72-4 ; since '76 a druggist. 

Augustus Cbeveling, Washington, N. J. — Bom at Washing- 
ton, Feb. 14, 1862 ; in General Scientific course through Fresh- 
man 3'ear; in extensive mercantile business asjunior partner with 
A. W. Creveling & Son. 



262 The Men of Lafayette. 

Frank H. Daniels, Worcester, Masa. — Pursued a special 
course in chemistry in '76. 

Charlton Kirby Davis, College Point, (L. I.) N. Y. — Son of 
Rev. J. Kirby Davis, tlien residing in Belvidere, N. J.; in col- 
lege a part of Fresliman year ; has since been engaged in teaching. 

Ira Dumont, PMllipshurg, N. J. — Ijcft college in Sophomore 
year, and engaged in teaching ; is now a clerli in the Taylor Iron 
Works, at High Bridge, N. J. 

John Armstrong Dunlap. — From Newville, Cumberland Co.; 
in college Fresliman year. 

Luther Melick Fine, Easton. — LaAv student; born at Fines- 
ville, Warren county, N. J ; in college Freshman, Sophomore and 
part of Junior year; studied one semester in '75, at Heidelberg 
University, German}^; now law student in the office of B. F. 
Fackenthall, of class of '44. 

Chester Fulmer, Easton. — In General Scientific course first 
two terms of Freshman 3'ear ; engaged in iron manufacture. 

Henry Lewis Griffis, New Milford, Susquehanna Co. — Born 
at Port Jervis, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1852 ^ brought U[) in Montrose, Pa. ; 
a student in Mining Engineering course ; left college at end of 
Junior year ; in Sept., '76, engaged in teaching, and since '78, has 
been Principal of the New Milford Graded school ; medical pro- 
fession in view. 

Augustus Harper Raiguel Guiley, M. D., Ulysses, Butler 
Co., Nebraska. — Born in South Easton, May 5. 1855; he discon- 
tinued his course — Mining Engineering — at the end of Sopliomore 
year on account of sickness ; graduated at Jefferson Medical 
College in '77, and received the R. J.Lewis and Toner gold med- 
als, for best report of clinics and thesis ; practiced in South Eas- 
ton until Nov. 21, '78, when he removed to Nebraska. 

William McMeens Hepburn, Williamsjwrt. — In college from 
Jan., '73, to Jan., '74; student of medicine in the University of 
Pennsylvania. 

John Henry Hosie, Scranton. — Born in Pittston, Jan. 25, 1852; 
in General Scientific course. Freshman year; since '75, he has 
been mining engineer for the Fairlawn Coal Company. 



Former Students — i8y6. 263 

Everett Newell Huggins, Cosmopolitan Hotel, Neiv York. — 
Seedsman ; born in New York, March 20, 1855 ; in Cliemical 
course from Sept., "72, to Jan., "16. 

Henry Tilge Johnson, M.J)., Pedricktown, N. J.— Born at 
Canton, Salem county, N. J., Aug. 26, 1854 ; in General Scientific 
course, Freshman year ; gi-acluatecl at the Medical Department of 
the University of Pennsylvania in '78. 

John Franklin Keller, Lancaster. — In special course in 
Technical Department, '72-6. 

James R. Kepple, Congruity, Westmoreland Co. — In college 
Jan., 1873, to Jan., '74. 

William Philip Kinsey, South Easton. — Born at Trenton, 
N. J., Oct. 16, 1854; in General Scientific course, ^^reshman 
year ; mechanical engineer for the Leliigh Valley Railroad Co., 
at South Easton, since June, '73. 

Henry Rush Koch. —From Bath; in General Scientific course 
Freshman and Sophomore years. 

Henry Reichenbach Kraber, Lancaster. — From York ; in 
Scientific and Chemical courses three years ; now proprietor of a 
book-store in Lancaster, 

Robert Fullerton Lind, Mansfield, Ohio.— In college Fresh- 
man year. 

Rev. John Thomas Lloyd, Manchester, England. From 

Corwen, North Wales ; in special studies in the classical course, 
in '72-4 ; received a Douglass Prize in '73 ; studied theology and 
is now preaching in Manchester. 

Albert Miller Long, Allegheny City. — Born in Pittsburg, 
August 2, 1855 ; in General Scientific course two years ; since 
'75, he has had a position in the glass manufacturing firm of Mc- 
Kee & Brothers. 

Jay Henry Long, Honey Brook, Chester Co. — In college until 
March, 1874, when he entered Princeton, and there graduated in 
'76; then studied two years in Princeton Theological Seminary; 
now editor of Honey Brook Graphic. 



264 The Men of Lafayette. 

Grover Stout Lowe. — From Somerville, N. J. ; in college 
three years ; has since been in mercantile business in Hacketts- 
town, N. J. 

William Cummins McKnight, Chavibersburg.— Born in An- 
trim township, Franklin county, June 21, 1854; left college at 
the end of Junior year and commenced medical study ; while 
pursuing his second course of lectures, in the University of 
Pennsylvania, he was made an assistant instructor in the chem- 
ical department. 

Abram McMurtrie, Belvidere, N.J. — In General Scientific 
and Chemical courses, "72-6, receiving a certificate ; now engaged 
in milling. 

Henry Stephen Magraw, Sterling, Bice Co., Kans.— Born at 
Lancaster, Sept. 15, 1853; in Civil Engineering course; left col- 
lege in Junior 3'ear to engage in milling, and in '79 in trade, in 
grain and stock, in Kansas. 

John Edwin Mann, Fairfield., N. C. — In General Scientific and 
partial course, Jan., '73, to June, '74. 

Rev. Oliver Hoffman Melcher, Kintnersville, BucksGo. — 
In college through Freshman, Sophomore, and one term of Jun- 
ior year ; received Douglass Pi'izes in '73, and '74 ; went to Get- 
tysburg, and there graduated and studied theology in the Theolog- 
ical Seminar}- of the Lutheran church ; licensed to preach by the 
Lutheran church (General Synod) Sept. 24, '78. 

AViLLiAM Alexander Petrikin, Muncy. — Born at Muncy, 
Oct, 24, 1851 ; in General Scientific course first two terms of 
Freshman year ; from '73-8 was a book-keeper and manufacturer; 
in '78 he was with the Collins expedition in Brazil, engaged in 
the construction of the Madeira Railroad. 

John Richards Ppouts, Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. — In par- 
tial Scientific course for a part of Freshman year. 

John Phillips, Alexandria, Huntingdon Go. — In college the 
first two terms of Freshman year. 

William Lewis Plack, Altoona. — Architect ; born at Altoona, 
June 18, 1854 ; in Technical course from Sept., '72, to Dec, '75 ; 
foreman of a manufacturing establishment, '76-8. 



Former Students — 18^6. 265 

(jEoiiGE Montgomery Kk a, I fackctlstown, N.J. — Born at Ihick- 
ettstown; in Scientific and Clieuiical courses, Sept., '72, to Dec, 
'75 ; now a clerk. 

Brittain Margargle Reed, Lairdsville, Lycoming Co — In 
college the first two terms of Freshman year. 

James Reese Schick, Eaaton. — Born in Easton,Jul3' 30, 1856 ; 
in Special course in Drawing and Surveying, three years; assist- 
ant in State Geological Survey, '75-7 ; now engaged in Washing- 
ton city. 

George Eyster Scott, Philadelphia. — From Huntingdon, son 
of U. S. Senator Scott; in college through Freshman year; now 
in U. S. Mint ; resides at 3802 Walnut street. 

Nicholas Irwin Scott. — From Twenty-Mile Stand, Warren 
Co., Ohio ; in Special course in Technical studies, -'72 -6, receiving 
a certificate. 

Herbert Francis Seip, Eadon.—^ovn at Freemansburg, 
Nov. 13, 1854; for two years Classical and Chemical student ; 
graduated as Doctor of Dental Surgery in Philadelphia, '78. 

Rev. Wilson Selner, New Bethlehem^ Clarion Co. — Born 
near Stony Point, Bucks county, Sept. 12, 1848 ; in college Jan. 
to June, '73; studied at Missionary Institute, Selins Grove, 
'71-2, and read theology privately after leaving college ; entered 
the ministry of the Lutheran church, June 13, '75 ; now pastor 
of the Kellersburg charge, in Armstrong county. 

John Graff Shields, Grand Rapids, Mich. — Merchant ; born 
at Blairsville, Pa., Jan. 10, 1854; after one term in Freshman 
year, left college because of sickness; in August, '77, left Blairs- 
ville and engaged in prosperous mercantile business at Grand 
Rapids; President of Young Men's Christian Association at 
Blairsville, and Secretary of the same at Grand Rapids. 

Dean Finley Smith — From Brooklyn, N. Y. ; teacher ; in 
college third term, Freshman year; taught two years in Easton ; 
since '75, no information received. 

Israel Henry Supplee, Bryn Mawr, Montgomery Co. — Born 
in Lower Meriou township, Montgomery county, Feb. 25, 1853 ; 



266 The Men of Lafayette. 

in Special course, Technical, receiving a certificate ; since Nov., 
'76, engaged in building. 

John Bascom Taylor, Wyalusing, Bradfor-d Co. — In college 
until the middle of Junior year, "when he left, because of illness ; 
he afterward returned and pursued part of the Senior year with 
the class of '78 ; is now a student of theology. 

George Brakeley White, Osceola, Clearfield Co. — From Bel- 
videre, N. J. ; in General Scientific course, Freshman year ; has 
since been a leather manufacturer at Osceola. 

Horace Frank Weeks, PhiladeljMa. — Lawyer ; born in Phila- 
delphia, Nov. 2, 1855; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; 
commenced study of law Oct., '74; graduated B.L. from Uni- 
versity of Pennsylvania, June 30, '77 ; address is 144 S. Fourth 
street. 

James Carter Wright, — From Mifflintown ; in General Scien- 
tific course. Freshman 3'ear. 

Benjamin Booth Wynkoop, Bellevue, loioa. — Born at Belle- 
vue, August 7, 1853; in General Scientific course, Sept., '72, to 
March, '76; druggist. 

Charles Oliver Young, — From Port Jervis, N. Y. ; in col- 
lege Freshman year ; graduated at Princeton. 

CLASS OF 1877. 

Charles Baeder A damson, Philadelphia. — Son of William 
Adamson, Esq., of Philadelphia, the founder of the Adamson Pro- 
fessorship of Analytical Chemistry ; in Chemical studies three 
years, 1873-6, and now in his father's firm, 730 Market street. 

John Hays Allen, Jr., Ph.G,, Philadelphia — Druggist ; born 
at Montoursville, Lycoming county, June 22, 1857; in General 
Scientific course. Freshman and Sophomore years ; graduated at 
Philadelphia College of Pharmacy, March 15, '78 ; druggist at 
Bordentown, N. J., from Aug,, '73, to Aug., '76 ; now at corner 
of Seventh and Master streets, Philadelphia ; Mr. Allen is an 
adopted son, his name being changed in 1870 from John Allen 
Goodlander to that which he now bears. 



Former Students — iSyy. 267 

William Mott Allison, Sacramento^ Cal. — Son of William 
M. Allison, of Mifflintown, of class of 1855; in college Fresh- 
man year, and then returned to the service of the Western Union 
Telegraph Co., in which he is still engaged. 

Avon Barnes, Allentoivn. — Machinist; born in Allentown, 
Sept. 7, 1855; in General Scientific course. Freshman year; is 
now in the employ of the Allentown Rolling Mill Co. 

Paek Edwards Bell, Pittsburg. — Born in Pittsburg, March 
8, 1857; in General Scientific course. Freshman year; engaged 
in railroad business. 

Olin Sargeant Boone, Espy, Columbia Co. — In college part 
of Freshman jear. 

Joseph Brewer. — From Camden, N. J. ; in General Scientific 
course. Freshman year. 

Wells Simon Brooks, Brattleboro, Vt. — Born at Brattleboro, 
July 19, 1855 ; in General Scientific course one term, and now 
teaching. 

Manuel J. Bustillo. — From Havana, Cuba, having his home 
a part of the time with relatives in business in Philadelphia ; in 
General Scientific course, Freshman year. 

Robert William Clark, Ch amber sburg.— Born at Chambers- 
burg, Aug. 21, 1854; in college from Sept., '73, to May, '76; re- 
ceived a certificate in Civil Engineering course ; in service of 
Cumberland Valley Railroad since '76. 

Harold Clemens, Easton. — In college, 1873-6; in '77 became 
a cadet at West Point. 

Frank Philip Collier, Stewartsville^N.J. — Born at Belvidere, 
111., June 28, 1857 ; in college Freshman year; taught at Haines- 
burg, N. J. ; re-entered Freshman in '78. 

Walter Ingleton Cook, Trenton, N. J. — In General Scientific 
course, part of Freshman year ; in mercantile business. 

Robert Gilson Craighead, Dayton, Ohio. — From Dayton ; in 
General Scientific course, special studies, three years ; teller of 
the Dayton Savings Bank. 



268 The Men of Lafayette. 

RuFUS Darr, Darlington.^ Beamier Co.— From Jacob's Creek, 
Westmoreland county ; in college Sophomoi'e year ; a teacher. 

Ferdinand Van Derveer Dilts, Somerville, N. J. — Born at 
Somerville, April 5,1858; in college, '73-7; studied law with 
his father, I. N. Dilts, of the class of '44, until his father's decease, 
and since in the office of Hon. Wm. J. Magie, of Elizabeth. 

Casper Bull, Harrisburg. — In special course in chemistry 
Freshman, Sophomore and Junior years, when he commenced the 
study of law in Harrisburg. 

Edward Mortimer Earle, Allentown. — Born at Catasauqua, 
April 13, '55; in General Scientific course. Freshman and Sopho- 
more years ; engaged in the Lehigh Hydraulic Cement Works, 
until the Company discontinued business in '76 ; when he engaged 
in manufacturing business on his own account at Allentown. 

Thomas Chalmers Ferguson, Chicago,, III. — From Borden- 
town, N. J, ; left college in Junior year ; and now with his broth- 
er in lumber business. South Wharves, Chicago. 

Daniel Fleisher, Newport., Perry Co. — Born in Oliver town 
ship. Perry county, Sept. 22, 1852; in General Scientific course 
in '73, and then taught at Liverpool, Pa., and New Bloomfield 
Academy ; now in class of '80, at Gettysburg. 

Frank M. Fuller, Uniontown, Fayette Co. — Id Special course, 
Sophomore year; law student in Easton, '75-6. 

Edwin Schere Glanz, Easton. — In college, '73-5; has since 
been in business with his father. 

Charles Cooper Griffith, Brady., Indiana Go. — Born July 
21, 1852; after one term in college he was absent a year, and re- 
sumed his studies with the class of '78, leaving at the end of 
Sophomore year ; teaching in Ligonier, Westmoreland county. 

Alexander Hamilton, Johnstown^ Cambria Co. — In General 
Scientific course. Freshman and Sophomore years ; member of 
the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

John Clemson Hazard, Dunbar^ Fayette Co.— Born in Mauch 
Chunk, April 9, 1856 ; in Mining course, '73-5; in coal business 



Former Students — i8yy. 269 

'75-7; Superintendent of coking for the Dunbar Furnace Co. 
since July, '77. 

John Peter Hecht, Easton. — Born in Easton, Aug. 1, 1857 ; 
after the Freshman year he went to Gettysburg, graduating there 
in '77 ; is now a student in Jefferson Medical College. 

David Hunt, Ca^asaugwa.— Born in Catasauqua; in Technical 
course, Freshman year ; learned the trade of a machinist ; was 
engaged as mechanical engineer with Messrs. Mackie, Scott & Co., 
in South America,in '78 ; now Superintendent of the Lehigh Fire 
Brick Co. 

Walter Barton Jenks, Philadelphia.— Son of Barton H. 
Jenks, a Trustee of Lafayette in 1865-'75; in General Scientific 
course, Freshman year; resides at 1726 N. Fifteenth street. 

Charles Robert Kline, Lancaster. — Lawyer ; born at Lan- 
caster, Oct. 31,1856; in college from Sept., '73, to July, '74 ; 
admitted to the bar of Lancaster county, March 9, '78. 

Charles Paxton Knapp, M.D., Wyoming, Luzerne Co. — Born 
at Wilkes-Barre, Aug. 13, 1853; in Classical course, Freshman; 
and General Scientific course. Sophomore year ; studied Medicine 
at the University of Pennsylvania, '75-6 ; at Bellevue Hospital 
Medical College, N. Y., '76-7 ; graduated,'77, and post-graduate, 
'77-8 ; resident Physician and Surgeon to Wilkes-Barre City 
Hospital, to Sept. 1, '76; practicing since March, '78, at Wy- 
oming. 

Alfred Preston Laubach, Seigfried''s Bridge, Northampton 
Co. — Born at Laubachsville, Dec. 19, 1854 ; attended Palatinate 
College ; in General Scientific course, Freshman year ; has since 
been in mercantile business. 

Rosh Leaman, Lancaster. — In college first teiin of Freshman 
year ; subsequently continued his course at Franklin and 
Marshall College. 

Albert Miller Long, Allegheny City. — In General Scientific 
course a part of Freshman year ; resides at 205 Ridge avenue. 

Edwin Wack Long, Philadelphia. — Bom at Norristown, Nov. 
19, 1863; in college, '73-7; received a Douglass Prize in '74; 
entered the Union Theological Seminary in '77. 



270 The Men of Lafayette. 

Leslie McLean Long, Marshall^ Texas Born at Summit 

Hill, Carbon county, Pa., April 20, 1855 ; in Civil Engineering 
course. Freshman year; assistant engineer on the Texas and Pa- 
cific Railroad since '77. 

Frank Fisher Lyon, Barclay.^ Bradford Co.— Born in Frank- 
lin, Bradford county, June 3, 1847 ; engaged in civil and mining 
engineering, '69-'73 ; special student in drafting from Sept., '73, 
to March, '74, when he resumed his position as mining engineer 
at Bernice colliery, Sullivan county, and is now chief engineer of 
the Towanda Coal Co., at Barclay. 

*Henry McCollum. — Born in Ulster, L'eland, Feb. 1, 1854 ; 
a resident of Warren, Pa.; received the Douglass Prize of $100; 
died at college in Sophomore year, March 11, '75; ministry in 
view. 

Charles Macalester, Jr., Philadelphia. — In General Scien- 
tific course. Freshman year. 

Charles W. McFarlane, C.E., Philadelphia.— -\n Civil En- 
gineering course, part of Freshman year, and graduated at Leliigh 
University in '7G. 

Clifton Mayfield, M.D., Georgetown.^ B.C. — Born at George- 
town, Feb. 6, 1858; left college near the close of Junior year, 
and studied medicine at Medical Department of Columbian Uni- 
versity. 

Hermann Meigs, Pottstown. — In Special course of Scientific 
study during a part of the Freshman year. 

Edward Mills, Jr., Ulster, Bradford Co. — Lawyer; born at 
Ulster; in General Scientific course two years; studied law at 
Towanda under Hon. Edward Overton, M.C.,and was admitted to 
the bar in Sept., '78. 

Edward Francis Mordough, M.D. — Brooklyn, N.Y. — Born at 
Springfield, Ohio, April 8, 1856; in college Sept., '73, to Jan., 
'76 ; received a Douglass Prize in '74 ; studied medicine at Long 
Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan , '76, to June, '78; 
resident surgeon Kings County Hospital, at Flatbush, L. I., July, 
'78, by competitive examination. 



Former Students — i8yy. 211 

Fred. Gordon Newton. — From Towanda; left college during 
Senior year; now studying medicine in the University of Penn- 
sylvania. 

Howard Northrop. — From Canadensis, Monroe county ; in 
General Scientific course, the first two terms of Freshman year. 

Barton Pardee, Hazleion, Luzerne Co. — A son of the founder 
of the Pardee Scientific Department ; born at Hazleton, Sept. 19, 

1855 ; in General Scientific course. Freshman and Sophomore 
years; since '77, Assistant Superintendent in mines at Hazleton. 

David Gribbon Parish, Gynthiana, Harrison Co. Ky Law- 
yer; born at Cynthiana, Sunday, Jan. 1, 1854 ; before the end of 
the first year, was obliged to leave because of failure of health ; 
for two years, '76-7, was on the staff of the Cynthiana News ; ad- 
mitted to the bar of Harrison county, April, '79. 

William Hart Patterson, San Francisco^ Cal. — Lawj^er ; 
son of U. S. Senator Patterson ; born in Philadelphia, May 24, 

1856 ; entered Sophomore, and left in middle of Junior year, to 
engage in the study of law at Washington, where he was admit- 
ted to the bar in June, '78 ; clerk to the Senate Committee on 
Territories, '76-9; located in San Francisco in '79. 

John Jasper Thompson Penney, McKeesport, Allegheny Co. 
— Born near McKeesport, Sept. 4, 1857 ; in college Freshman 
year ; then entered Washington and Jefferson ; student of law in 
the ofiSce of the Hon. James P. Sterrett, Pittsburg. 

Arnold Gilmore Plijmer, Philadelphia. — Born in Franklin, 
March 11, 1855; in General Scientific course from Sept., '73, to 
Oct., '75, and then studied law at Cleveland, but relinquished it, 
and engaged in banking, Jan. 1,'79, with B. K. Jamison & Co., 3d 
and Chestnut Streets. 

Samuel Crawford Fom'eroy, Academia, Juniata Go. — Bom at 
Academia, June 1, 1851 ; in college Freshman year ; engaged in 
farming. 

MiLO Pearson Reagle, Mt. Bethel. — Left college near the close 
of Junior year, and has since been teaching at Portland. 



272 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. Harry Yernon Rice. — From Kalamazoo, Mich.; son of Dr. 
Wm. H. Rice, of Oakland, Cal.; left college at the end of Junior 
year ; studied theology at Union Seminary, and graduated at 
Princeton Seminary in "19; received degree of A.B. from Lafay- 
ette in '77. 

Blair Webster Roller, Williamsburg, Blair Co. — Farmer; 
born near Springfield Furnace, Blair county, Nov, 5, 1852 ; in 
General Scientific course the first four terms, when his father's 
ill health required him to remain at home. 

Charles Jennings Savitz, Easton. — Teacher; born in Baston, 
Dec. 20, 1856; in college the first two terms of Freshman year. 

Jacob Washington Schwartz, New York City.— Born at 
Tamaqua, Feb. 22, 1856; in General Scientific course, '73-7 ; now 
studying law in the office of Hon. L. F. Cozans, 51 Chambers 
street. 

*MiNARD Shaw. — From McKeesport, Fa.; in college Fresh- 
man year only ; engaged in the office of a civil engineer in Pitts- 
burg, and there died in 1876. 

Clifford McColla Shehron. M.D., Salem, N. J.— In Special 
course. Freshman and Sophomore years ; graduated in medicine 
at University of Pennsylvania, '79, with honorable mention in 
Anatomy. 

John Tinny Skeen, Baltimore, Md. — Born at Downingtown, 
Chester county, Pa., Jan. 4, 1849 ; in special course, Freshman, 
Sophomore and Junior years ; received a Douglass Prize in '74 ; 
teacher in House of Refuge at Baltimore ; permanent address is 
35 Forrest Place. 

Harry Clinton Steckel, AUentown. — Grocer ; born at Naza- 
reth, Oct. 2, 1856 ; in Technical course. Freshman year. 

Edwin Thomas, Alburtis, Lehigh Go. — Born at Catasauqua, 
April 2, 1853 ; in General Scientific course. Freshman year ; super- 
intendent of Lock Ridge Furnaces of the Thomas Iron Company 
at Lock Ridge, Lehigh county. 

Walter Vandegrift Woods, M.D., McDonough, New Castle 
Co.,Del. — Born near McDouough,March 24, 1854 ; in college from 



Former Students — i8yy. 273 

Sept. to Dec, '73; graduated at Jefferson Medical College, '77 • 
now a practicing phj'sician at Port Penn, Del. 

Benjamin Franklin Young, Mifflinhurg^ Union Go. — In col- 
lege first term of Freshman year ; now cashier of the First Na- 
tional Bank. 

Charles McGill Zahniser, Sharon,, Mercer Go. — In college 
Freshman and Sophomore years. 

CLASS OF 1878. 

William Atkinson Alderson, Kansas Gity, Mo. — Lawyer ; 
from St. Charles, Mo. ; in college Freshman year ; engaged on 
the Lake Surve}'' in '75; teacher at Alton, 111.; and now practic- 
ing law at 521 Main street, Kansas City. 

Edward Damon Allen, Franklin. — Born at North Reading, 
Mass., Ma3^ 28, 1856 ; in General Scientific course, Freshman and 
Sophomore years ; engaged in mercantile business since Jan. 1,'78. 

Isaac W. Beeson. — From Augusta, Ga. ; in General Scientific 
course a short time in Freshman year. 

Hervey Winthrop Beymer, Pittsburg. — Born at AUeghen}^ 
City, May 31, 1856 ; for two years in the Pennsjdvania Military 
Academy ; in General Scientific course from Sept., '74, to March, 
'76 ; and since that time book-keeper for the Pennsylvania White 
Lead Works, 42 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburg. 

Frederick Miller Bouton, Moosic, Luzerne Go. — Druggist ; 
born at Pruvidence, Luzerne county, Pa., March 14, 1854 ; student 
of Chemistry, Jan. to Mai'ch, '75. 

Walter James Bradshaw, Indianapolis., Ind. — Born in In- 
dianapolis, Feb. 12, 1857 ; in Technical course. Freshman and 
Sophomore years; since '77, he has been in the wholesale (\Yy 
goods house of Murphy, Johnston & Co. 

Andrew Scott Brown, Erie. — Born at Erie, Feb. 11, 1855 ; 
in Civil Engineering course, and left at the end of Sophomore 
year to engage in mercantile business. 

Thomas Budington, Brooklyn., N. Y. — A student in Chemical 
course, first term of Senior year. 



274 The Men of Lafayette. 

Alexander Cathcart Coble, Carlide.- — In General Scien- 
tific course during Freshman year, and law student in Easton, 
1875-6. 

William Alexander Cox, Jr., Shijjpennburg.-^Born at Ship- 
pensburg, Nov. 13, 1855; left college in Sophomore year, Dec, 
'75, and engaged in hardware business. 

John Jacoby Dungan — From Flourtown, Montgomer}^ coun= 
ty ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years ; now in mercan- 
tile business. 

John Robert Eaton. — From A rchbald, Luzerne county; in 
Technical course, during parts of Freshman and Sophomore 
years. 

John Seneca Ely. — Prom Doylcstown ; in Technical course, 
first term of Freshman year. 

John Kennedy Ewing, Jr., Utnontown. — Law student ; son of 
Judge Ewing, of '37; born at TJniontown, Nov. 24, 1855; in 
General Scientific course, Freshman and Sophomore years ; en- 
gaged in insurance, and is Notary Public for Fayette county. 

Benjamin Franklin Fackenthall, Jr., Iliegehville, Bucks 
Co. — Born at Doylestown, June 2, 1851 ; for two terms a special 
student in Chemistry, '73-4; general superintendent of the mines 
and blast furnace of the Durham Iron Works. 

Wallace Henderson Falls, New Castle., Lawrence Co. — Born 
at New Castle, Nov. 9, 1855; in General Scientific course, two 
years ; in oil business a short time, and since '77, studying law 
at New Castle. 

Stewart Fullerton, Torresdale. — Born in Antrim county, 
Ireland, June 21,1851; in college Freshman year; studying 
medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. 

John Gilmore. — From Uniontown ; in General Scientific 
couKse, first term of Freshman year. 

John Oscar Glase, OZey, Berks Co. — Born at Friedesburg, 
Berks count}'-, July 25, 1856; in General Scientific course,'74-6, 
and since, has been a clerk in mercantile business. 



Former Students — i8y8. 275 

*Reuben C. Hale. — Son of Captain John M. Hale, of Reading, 
and nephew of Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy ; in General 
Scientific course part of Freshman 3^ear ; he died of consumption 
at the residence of his father-in-law, Dr. Diller Luther, in Read- 
ing, on Marcli 8, "79, aged 22. 

Robert Hugh Hamill, M.D., P/iz7a(Ze/p/?.za.— Graduated at 
Medical Department of University of Pennsylvania, in 1878, and 
since, physician at Blockley Hospital. 

Naudain Hamilton, — From Harrisburg ; in General Scientific 
course during Freshman, and one term of Sophomore year; 
now engaged in Wyeth's drug store, Philadelphia. 

Edgar Hart, M.D., Pennington, Mercer Co., N. J. — Born at 
Pennington, April 25, 1856; in Special course in Chemistry, 
Freshman and Sophomore years ; graduated at the Medical De- 
partment of the Universit\' of Pennsylvania in '79. 

Samuel Sebring Hartranft, Philadelphia. — Son of Gov. 
John F. Hartranft ; born at Norristown, Oct. 30, 1855 ; in 
the Chemical course ; left college in his Senior year, Feb., '78, 
to tcake the position of First Assistant Chemist on the State 
Geological Surve3\ 

William Justice Hayes, Erie. — Born at Erie, Feb. 4, 1858 ; 
in General Scientific course, two terms of Freshman year, and 
then became clerk in the First National Bank of Erie, where he 
is now chief book-keeper. 

John Hereon, Jr. — From Dehra, India, having his home 
while in college with an uncle, at Talley Cavey, Allegheny coun- 
ty, Pa. ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years. 

Charles Merrill Hileman, Pittston. — Born at Pittston, Jan. 
15, 1857; in special Technical course, Freshman and Sophomore 
years. 

ToRRENCE Huffman. — From Dayton, Ohio ; special student, 
first term of Freshman year. 

Randolph Clark Hyatt, A.B., Georgetown, D. C. — Born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct. 10, 1857 ; in Freshman class two terms ; 
left on account of illness ; graduated in '78 at Columbia Univer- 
sity, D. C, where he is now a student of medicine. 



276 The Men of Lafayette. 

Thomas Glover Johns, /S'^. Charles^ Mo. — Lawyer; boi'ii ;it 
St. Charles, August 2G, 1855; in college, Freshman year; 
taught two years, and then studied law in the office of Hon. 
Henry C. Lackland, and admitted to the bar Jan. 6, '79. 

J. MiLEY Jones, Hari-isburg. — Piinter ; born at Harrisburg, 
May 25, 1857 ; two years in Pennsylvania State College ; in Tech- 
nical course from Sept., '74, to March, '76 ; is clerk in the depart- 
ment of public printing of Pennsylvania. 

Richard Armstong Kennedy, Tarentum., Allegheny Co.-^ 
Lawyer ; born at Freeport, Armstrong county, March 1, 1856 ; in 
Technical course. Freshman, and one term of Sophomore year ; 
admitted to Pittsburg bar, April, '79. 

Edward West Lyon, Charlotte., N.C. — Born at Sligo, Clarion 
county, Jan. 10, 1858; in General Scientific course, Freshman 
year; then spent a year at Western University of Pennsylvania 
in the study of assaying ; since Oct., '77, has been mining gold 
in North Carolina, excepting four months in '78, spent in the Ge- 
ological division of Lieut. Wheeler's U. S. Survey in Arizona. 

Frank Hastings McArthur.— From Sharon, Mercer count}' ; 
in college first two terms of Freshman j-ear. 

William Quincy McGee, Caiiro, 7Z/. — Lawyer; born at Prince- 
ton, Ky., March 24, 1855 ; brought up at Cairo; in Chicago Uni- 
versity three years ; in General Scientific course as a special stu- 
dent from Sept., '74, to Jan., '75, when he began to study law at 
Cairo, and was there admitted to the Illinois bar, Jan. 5, '77 ; in 
April, '77, he was nominated for City Attorney on the Democratic 
ticket, and elected, being the only nominee of his party who was 
favored with a majority. 

Herbert MclNTOSH,Do^/es^oton. — Born at Dojdes town, Jan. 20, 
1857 ; in special course in languages from Sept., '74, to Feb., '75 ; 
then taught at Doylestown, and at Swedesboro, N. J. ; now a 
student in Brown Universitj^, R. 1. 

David Adrian McLeod, High Bridge., New York City. — Born 
in New York city, March 28, 1857 ; in General Scientific course, 
Freshman year ; since '77, engaged in architecture and building. 



Former Students— 1878 . 277 

Chaeles Archibald McSparren, ErHe. — Bom at Erie, Jan. 
11, 1854 ; in Technical course, Freshman year, when the death of 
his father interrupted his studies ; now in mercantile life. 

Curtis Q. MgWilliams, Shamokin. — In Freshman class two 
terms ; in lumber business. 

Robert James Mason.. — From Mercer ; in General Scientific 
course during part of Freshman 3'ear ; now studying law. 

GuYON Miller. — From Coatesville, Chester count}^ ; in Tech- 
nical course, Freshman year; clerk in Custom House, in Phila- 
delphia. 

Henry Millholland, Moutit Savage, Alleghany Co,, Md. — 
Born in Reading, June 11, 1867 ; in Technical course,'74-5 ; now 
draughtsman for the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad, . 
and the Consolidation Coal Company of Maryland. 

Charles Newton, Nicholson, Wyoming County. — Left col- 
lege at the end of Junior year, and entered upon the study of 
medicine in Baltimore, Md. 

Aaron Willard Nicholas, Mendham, N. J.— Born at Mend- 
ham ; in Technical course a year; since 1876, Principal of the 
Ironia High School. 

Harry Paxton, Cannonsburg, Washington Co. — In college in 
the summer of 1875; in April, '77, he was appointed Paymaster's 
clerk in the U. S. Army. 

Cyrus Simpson Pershing, Pittsburg. — Born at Steubenville, 
Ohio, August 29, 1866 ; in General Scientific course; left college 
in his Junior year, on account of ill health. 

Lewis John Rader, Easton. — Born in Easton, Sept. 15, 1857 ; 
in General Scientific course. Freshman 3'ear; since Jan., '76, in 
mercantile business. 

James Ramsay, M.D., Delaware Station, N. J. — Born at Ram- 
sayburg, Warren county, N. J., April 30, 1854 ; in Special course, 
'73-6; graduated at Bellevue Hospital Medical College, in '79. 

Alexander Burton Randall, 45 East Cain St., Atlanta, Ga. 
— From Annapolis, Md.; in General Scientific course until the 
third term of Sophomore year. 



2T8 The Men of Lafayette. 

James Mttchell Reese, PJiillipshurg.N. J. — In college Fresh- 
man year. 

Alexander Hibberd Roberts, Philadelphia.— ^orn in Har- 
risburg, Aug. 1, 1856; in General Scientific course, special studies, 
Freshman year; jobber and importer of saddlery hardware, at 
112 N. Third street. 

Arch Tanner Scofield, Warren. — In Technical course ; 
left college in Junior year. 

Edward Richard Shaw. — From Bellport, L. I.; in college 
Freshman j^ear ; taught in Delaware, and student in Delaware 
College ; candidate for the ministry. 

George Yernon Sheffield, Suffern, Rockland Co., N, Y. — 
From Newburg, N. Y. ; left college in the third term of Sopho- 
more year. 

Harry Addis Smith, Newtown, Bucks Co. —Born at Rich- 
boro, Oct. 22, 1854; in General Scientific course; left at end of 
Sophomore year to enter the Newtown Bank, of which he is now 
Teller. 

Samuel Alexander Soxman, Gongruity, Westmoreland. Go. — 
Born at Echo, Armstrong county, 1854; in college from Sept., 
"14, to Oct., '75, and has since been teaching. 

*John Stengelin, Jr. — Born in Brooklyn, N, Y., July 12, 
1856 ; graduated at Easton High School, in '74, receiving there- 
from the Prize Scholarship in Lafayette; died at the com- 
mencement of his Junior year, Sept. 9, '76, aged 20. 

KuzuMA Takasu. — From Tokio, Japan; in Civil Engineering 
course, first term of Freshman year; afterwards a student in 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. 

IJji Taka Toda. — From Tokio, Japan ; in Civil Engineering 
course, first term of Freshman year; afterward in Rensselaer 
Polytechnic Institute. 

Marcus Calvin Turner, Batavia, Genessee Go., N.Y. — Born 
at Batavia, Sept. 22, 1854; in General Scientific course two 
years; since Nov., '77, partner with his father in extensive and 
prosperous mercantile business. 



Former Students — i8'j8. 279 

John Van Metee. — From Cannonsburg, Washington county ; 
left college in the early part of Sophomore year. 

Feancis Eugene Wade, Hackettatown^ N.J. — Born at Sparta, 
N. J. ; in Civil Engineering course, Freshman and Sophomore 
years; since August 1, 1878 in coal and lumber business. 

Alexandee Bowman Weavee, Clearfield. — In General Scien- 
tific course, special studies, Freshman year; in insurance business. 

Haeey Wallace Webee, Altoona, Blair Co. — Born at War- 
rior's Mark, Huntingdon county, August 2, 1853; in Technical 
course two terms; since '75, in the employ of the Pennsylvania 
Railroad; now Freight and Passenger Agent at Barre Station. 

Baed Wells, PottaviUe.— in Genera! Scientific course; left 
college, because of ill health, in Junior year; engaged in the en- 
gineering department of the Pliiladelphia and Beading Railroad. 

William Dana Wheelee, Osicfgo, N. Y.- — Born in Oswego, 
Feb. 3, 1856; in Mining F!ngineering course ; loft college at the 
end of Junior year, since which time he has been with his father, 
in the firm of Wheeler & Co., wholesale coal dealers. 

Olivee Russell Wood, Martin'' s Ferry ^ Ohio In General 

Scientific course through Freshman year; he then pursued a par- 
tial course in Earlham College, Indiana; now a law student at 
Michigan University. 

CLASS OF 1879. 

Chaeles Aethue Allison, Ilifflintown, Juniata Co, — Born in 
Bedford county ; in General Scientific course, first two terms of 
Freshman year ; law student in the University of Pennsylvania. 

William Whitney Ballaed, ^pringfield.i Ohio. — In General 
Scientific course. Freshman year ; studied law at Michigan Uni- 
versity. 

Edmund L. Bixlee, Easton. — Born in Easton, July 8, 1858 ; 
left during Freshman year, and since January, '77, has been in 
the oflfice of the Eadon Daily Express. 

Edwaed Feancis Blewitt, Scranton. — Born in New Orleans, 
La., January 2, 1859 ; in Civil Engineering course. Freshman 
year ; since '77, teaching in Scranton ; and in Dec, '78, appointed 
on the U. S. Coast Survey. 



280 The Men of Lafayette. 

Henry Stewart Cavanaugh, Eaaton. — Born in Easton, April 
22, 1858 ; received the First Prize in the Junior Orator Contest 
in '78 : at the end of tlie Junior year left college and entered the 
office of Wm. Beidelman, Esq., as a student of law. 

Sevellon Fowler Channell, WelUhoro^ Tioga Go Born at 

Canton, Bradford county, Nov. 21, 1848 ; taught, and was clerk; 
in General Scientific course, elective studies, for two years, "75-1 ; 
since studying law in the office of Hon. Henry Sherwood, at 
Wellsboro. 

George William Pennell Coates, Baltimore, Mel. — In Tech- 
nical course. Freshman yetxx ; graduated at the University of 
Georgia, Athens, in "IT ; now in business Avith his father. 

Charles Markley Crawford, New Cai^tle. — In General Sci- 
entifi.e course, Freshman year. 

Thomas Morris Defrees, Washington., D. G. — In General Sci- 
entific course. Freshman year; is now U. S. mail agent. 

Ezra Chalmers Doty, Miffiintown. — In college second and 
third terms of Freshman year. 

Isaac Eckert, Reading. — In Special course, 1875-8, and now 
manager of Iron Works at Topton, Pa. 

Isaac Gerhart Eckert, Reading. — In Technical course during 
Freshman year. 

Horace Jay Evans, Gouncil Blujf's, Iowa. — In Civil Engineer- 
ing course until the close of Junior year ; now in stock business. 

John Creigh Evans, Port Deposit., Md. — Farmer; born at 
Havre de Grace, Aug 7, 1857 ; removed to Evandale Farm, near 
Port Deposit, in 1864; in college Freshman year. 

William Fackenthall, Easton — Lawyer; son of B. F. Fack- 
enthall, Esq., of class of '44; born at Durham, Bucks county, 
Sept. 12, 1857; in college '75-6; studied law with his father, and 
was admitted to the Northampton county bar in '79. 

Charles Hunt Fell, Wilkes-Barre. Lawyer ; born at 

Wilkes-Barre, Oct. 23, 1857; in General Scientific course. Fresh- 
man year ; studied law in Wilkes-Barre. 



Former Students — iSyg. 281 

John William Flad, Eai^ton.—'Qovn in Easton, Feb. 3, 1859 ; 
in college from Sept., '75, to Dec, "16, and since in mercantile 
business and studying law in the office of R. E. James, Esq. of 
class of '69. 

Robert Foresman, Johnsonsburg, N. J. — Son of Rev. Robert 
B. Foresman, of class of '48; born at Lower Mt. Bethel, Nov. 9, 
1856; in college Freshman year, and has since taught. 

Robert Ogden Fowler. — Franklin Furnace, Sussex Co., N.J. 
— Son of Dr. H. 0. Fowler, of class of '35; born at Port Jervis, 
N. Y., Feb. 9, 1857 ; in Special course. Junior and Senior years. 

Edward Coleman Freeman, Cornwall. — In Chemical course 
until the end of the Junior year ; now manager of iron mines. 

Herbert Thomas Gould, South Easton. — Left college during 
the Sophomore year ; now a law student. 

George Milton Harleman, Weatherly, Carbon Co. — In Civil 
Engineering course. Freshman and Sophomore years; since '77 
in telegraphing service of the Lehigh Yalley Railroad, at South 
Bethlehem. 

Daniel Coyle Herr, Harrisburg. — Born at Harrisburg, Aug. 
16, 1856 ; in college four terms ; and then left because of impair- 
ed health ; is now studying law with his father. Senator Herr. 

Oscar Jarecki, Erie. — In college Freshman year ; now part- 
ner in the Jarecki Brass Works, Erie. 

John Bradley Kitchen, Indianapolis, Ind. — In General Sci- 
entific course, Freshman year ; now in railroad business. 

David Henry Lovell, Altoona. — In Civil Engineering course. 
Sophomore and Junior years ; now in the service of the Pennsyl- 
vania Railroad. 

James Major M.cCakiy, Reading. — In General Scientific course, 
second and third terms of Freshman year. 

John George McGowan, Reading. — Merchant ; born in Read- 
ing, Nov. 28, 1858 ; in General Scientific coui'se, part of Fresh- 
man year. 

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282 The Men of Lafayette. 

William Henry McTlhany, Martin'' s Creek. — Teacher, first 
at Newton, N. J., and then at South Easton in "15-7, while pur- 
suing studies of the Freshman and Sophomore years. 

Robert MacDonald, Gwnherland.^ Md. — Lawyer; born of 
Scotch parentage, at Frostbnrg, Md., March 22, 1857 ; in college 
two terms of Freshman year; graduated at Law School of Uni- 
versity of Maryland, June, '78; admitted to the bar of Alleghany 
county, Md., July 6, '78. 

Jacob Truman Martin, M.P., Bradford. — From Allentown ; 
Pursued special studies in the General Scientific course, '75-6 ; 
graduated in medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, in '79. 

Edward Patterson Micke, Eadon. — In Special course, '75-6. 

Elwood Andrew Miller, Huntingdon.— heft college near the 
close of Junior year ; now reading law with Brown, Bailey & Co., 
Huntingdon. 

Louis Herman Millikan, Washington Court House, Ohio. — • 
In Civil Engineering course, two years, 187-'>-7; now in mercantile 
business, 

Robert Pollock Parker, Oil City. — Born at Parkers Land- 
ing, April 13, 1858; in General Scientific course from Jan., '76, 
to April, '78 ; since leaving college, engaged in oil business. 

John Douglass Perkins, Coatesville., Chester Co. Born at 

Coatesville, Jan. 13, 1857 ; in General Scientific course, Fresh- 
man year; engaged in lumber business. 

Hiram Jones Plough, Orrstown, Franklin Co. — In Gen- 
eral Scientific course. Sophomore year. 

William Plumer Foster.! Winter set, Iowa. — In General Scien- 
tific course. Freshman year. 

Frank Scott Pusey, Council Bluffs, lotca. — In General Scien- 
tific course, Freshman and Sophomore years ; now banking. 

William Seeger Roland, New Holland.— Born at New Hol- 
land, Aug. 31, 1857; in General Scientific course, Freshman year; 
now in mercantile business. 



Former Students — iSyg. 283 

William Robinson Ross, Lebanon. — Born at Lebanon ; in Gen- 
eral Scientific course, Sept., 1875, to Marcli, '77; clerk in his 
fatlier's drug store from June, '74. 

Samuel Carson Rowland, Port Dejjosit, Md. — Horn at Port 
Deposit, Jan 9, 1858; in General Scientific course until tlie mid- 
dle of Junior year, and has since entered the firm of Rowland & 
Way, wholesale lumber dealers. 

♦Frederick Gustavus Sage. — From Easton ; left college at 
the end of the second term of Freshman year, and died April 8, 

1876. 

James Logan Shiland, Southampton.^ N.Y. —In Civil Engineer- 
ing course; left college near the close of the elunior year. 

Elijah McDowell Shoemaker, Wilkes-Barre. — In General 
Scientific course; left college at the end of third term, Freshman 
year. 

Benjamin Strauss, Titusville.—Born at BuflTalo, N. Y., Sept. 
28, 1858; graduated at Titusville High School, '74; in college 
one term, and since, in active mercantile life. 

Scott Truxtun, Philadelphia. —In Technical course. Fresh- 
man year; afterward at the Maryland Agricultural College. 

John Constant Walker, Indianapolis, Ind.—ln General Sci- 
entific course, Freshman year ; now reading medicine at India- 
napolis. 

Albert Silas Warner, Batavia, N. Y. — In college Freshman 
year ; now engaged in mercantile business with his father at Ba- 
tavia. 

Irvin David Wiltrout, M. D., Schuylkill Haven. — Examined 
and admitted Freshman in '75, but hindered by protracted ill- 
health from joining the class ; after travel, he studied medicine, 
and graduated at Jefferson Medical College, March, '78. 

CLASS OF 1880, 

Theodore Adams, Jr., Philadelpjhia. — In college Freshman 
year. 

James Archer, Jr., Denver, Col. — In General Scientific course 
during part of Freshman year. 



284 The Men of Lafayette. 

Frank Eshleman Bachman, Stranburg, Lancaster Go, — Born 
at Strasburg, Dec. 9, 1858; entered Sophomore; in Chemical 
course. 

Morton Shelley Bailey, Welhboro^ Tioga Co. — Born at 
Charleston, Tioga county, July 3, 1855 ; business manager of the 
Lafayette College Journal since '77. 

James WooDBitiDGE Barnes, New York City. — Born at Tama- 
qua, Jan. 28, 1857 ; after pursuing his studies half of Freshman 
year with the class of '79, he was absent from college one year, 
resuming his studies with the class of '80 ; received a Douglass 
Prize in '77 ; is a member of the American Philological Associa- 
tion. 

*Frank Barron. — Born in Easton, July 5, 1859, and died 
early in Freshman year, Oct. 9, '76. 

Robert Welsted Beers, Easton. — Born in Easton, Dec. 3, 
1860; graduated at Easton High School ; the ministry in view. 

Charles Webber Bolton, Prosiwct, Butler'Co, — In Technical 
course, in special studies. 

William Findlay Brown, Dover, Bel. --Born in Philadelphia, 
July 23, 1861; in General Scientific course, with Latin. 

Jeremiah Murray Burrell, Greensburg, Westmoreland Co. — ■ 
In college part of Freshman year. 

George Washington Bush, Jr., Wilmington, Del. — In Gen- 
eral Scientific course; left at end of Sophomore year; since which 
time he has been a member of the firm of George W. Bush & Son, 
engaged in the coal trade, and proprietors of the Wilmington and 
Philadelphia Steam Freight Line. 

William Samuel Cason, Robinson Station, Ky. — Born Nov. 
23, 1856; entered Sophomore class. 

James McKeen Cattell, Easton. — Eldest son of President 
Cattell; born in Easton, May 25, 1860; received a second Doug- 
lass Prize in '77. 

Charles Clark, New Germanfown, N. J. — -In General Scien- 
tific course, part of Freshman year. 



Students — Class of 1880 . 285 

William Hiester Clymer, Temple, Bei^ks Go. — In General 
Scientific course, Freshman, and one term of Sopliomore year. 

John H. Cooper, Brockwayville, Jefferson Go Born at 

Brockwayville, Oct. 10, 1852; the ministrjMn view. 

Harry Prather Craig, Ghambershurg. — In General Scientific 
course; left in Sophomore year. 

William Simon Cranz, Akron, Ohio. — Born at Akron, Sept. 
28, 1859; in Chemical course. 

Archibald Alexander Dewing, Gold Spring, N.J. — Born at 
Reedsville, Marshall county, Iowa, Sept. 1, 1856 ; the ministry 
in view. 

Hervey Simpson Dickey, Steeleville, Ghester Go. — Born in 
York county, Oct. 15, 1853; entered Freshman third term; the 
ministry in view. 

Thomas Frederick 'DiE'EEm)'EB.FER,All€ntown, — Born at White- 
hall, Lehigh county, Oct. 15, 1854. 

Herbert Allison Doud, Scranton. — Born at Scranton, Feb. 
23, 1859; entered Sophomore; previously in the editorial office 
of the /Scranton Daily Repuhlican. 

Clarence Lincoln Drake, Easton. — Born in Easton, Nov. 9, 
1859. 

Henry Hill Eldridge, ShiloJi, Gumberland Go., N. J^,— Born 
at Cape May City, N. J., Dec. 2, 1852; in General Scientific 
course. 

Rev. Josiah Litch Estlin, Philadelphia.— Born in Philadel- 
phia, July, 1845 ; partial course in Classical Department, from 
Jan., 'IT, to June, '78 ; in early life a jeweler; entered the minis- 
try in 'Y4 ; in "15-6 was pastor of the Church of the Reconcilia- 
tion, Philadelphia, Reformed Episcopal church; address is 608 
Franklin Street. 

John Wilson Farquhar, Easton. — Born in York county, 
March 3, 1861 ; son of the Rev. John Farquhar, of the class of '41 . 

Austin Farrell, Pleasant Hills, Atlantic Go., N. J. — Son of 
John W. Farrell ; born in Philadelphia, April 16, 1858 ; removed 



280 The Men of Lafayette. 

at age of 12 to rieas.-uil Mills ; caiulidate for degree of Analytical 
Chemist. 

Levi James Fick, [jiberty., Tioya Co. — Bora at Liberty ; en- 
tered third term Freshman year. 

John Potts FiLLKiiiiowN, Washington., D. G. — Born in Wash- 
ington, Sept. 23, 1858 ; in Mining Engineering course. 

Horace Edgar Fisre, Trenton., N. J. — In General Scientific 
course, first term Freshman year. 

Lewis Wesley Flinn, Neivport., New Castle Co.., Bel. — Born 
in Newport, Sept. 15, 1858 ; minlical study in view. 

Harry Bogers Forres, J)u(/'alo, N. Y. — Born in Litchfield, 
Conn., Aug. 17, 1859 ; in General Scientific course. 

MuscoE Minor Gibson, Norristoion. — Born at Blacksburg, 
Montgomery county, Ya., Feb. (>, 1859; entered Sophomore. 

Aaron Goldsmith, Easton.—l^ovw in Easton, Jan. 27, 18(>1. 

George Blackburn Goodhart, Reading. — Born in Cincinnati, 
Ohio, Aug. 22, 1859 ; entered Soi)homore. 

Frederick Henry (xRant, Newark.^ N. J. — Born in Newark, 
Feb. 24, 1860; in General Scientific course. Freshman 3'ear ; now 
in manufacturing establishment of Crane & Co. 

Frederick Green, Easton. — Son of Hon. Henry Green, of 
class of '46 ; born in Easton, Oct. 5, 1859. 

Herbert Millkr Hagerman, Mount Bethel, Northampton Co. 
— Born at Mount Bethel. 

Benjamin Taylor Hale, Towanda. —In college Sophomore 
year. 

Benjamin Franklin Harris, Phillipsburg, N. J. — In college 
Freshman year ; in railroad oflice. 

William Smith Harris. — Entered college in third term of 
Freshman, and left during Junior year. 

John Smith Hart, Pennington, Mercer Co., N. J. — Born at 
Pennington, July 9, 1858 ; in General Scientific course. 



Students — Class of 1880. 28T 

Anbrkw Thomas TIayh, EmmiUHhur(j^ jW.- Born at Em mitts- 
burg, Dec. 22, 1850. 

Joseph Patrick Henry, Mannfield, Ohio. — liorn at Mansfield, 
April 10, 1854 ; cnteic'l Freshman third term; study of law in 
view. 

lloBKKT JuLiLS IIess, EldredaryiUe^ SuUiran Co.- Left college 
early in the Junior year ; study of medicine in view. 

Frank Wallace If oHii, Eantov. — lioin in Kaston, April 25, 
1861. 

George Howell, I]ydn I'ark^ Luz*irne (Jo. — In General Scien- 
tific course, Freshman year. 

George Graham Irwin, NorrtHfovm. — Born at Cheiry Tree, 
Venango county, May 17, 1858 ; since '65, resided atXorristown; 
in General Scientific couise two terms, until his father's decease. 

Harry Joun, Audenried^ Carbon Co. — In General Scientific 
course, Freshman year. 

Asa Shabpe Keeler, Keelersburg, Wyoming Co. — Bom at 
Keelersburg, May 7, 1858; law in view. 

Edwin Kline, Alexandria^ IJurdinfjdon Co. — Bora at Alexan- 
dria, August 17, 1860 ; in General Scientific course. 

Clarence Verli Lichty, Lancaster. — in college Freshman 
and Sophomore years ; now in mercantile business. 

Alexander McClube Lupfeb. Beavertov.m, Snyder Co., — 
Born at Blain, PeiTy county, Sept. 17, 1855 ; in Technical course. 

James Henry McConkey, WrigfUxville, York, Co. — At the 
end of Freshman year he entered the College of New Jersey. 

Joseph Reesman Mann, Mill Hall, Clinton Co — In General 
Scientific course ; left college near the close of Sophomore year 
to engage in manufacturing. 

John Markle, Philadelphia. — Born at Hazleton, Dec. 15, 
1858 ; in Technical course; resides at 1936 Arch Street. 

Norton John Martin, Allentown. — Born at Allentown, Jan. 
29, 1859. 



288 The Men of Lafayette. 

Alexander Hamilton Miller, AUentown. — In Freshman class 
first term. 

Otho Nesbitt Miller, Williamsport. — Born at Williamsport, 
March 11, 1861 ; entered Sophomore class. 

Jonathan Trowbridge Morrison, Neiv York. — Born at Cairo, 
Greene countj^, N. Y., Feb. 26, 1856; entered Sophomore in 
Technical course. 

William Yernon Olyphant, New York City. — Born in New 
York City, Oct. 5, 1858; in Technical course. 

Rubens Feale Patterson, Norristoicn. — In special Chemical 
course, in Freshman and part of Sophomore year. 

Harry Christopher Pickels, Wilmington,, Del. — In General 
Scientific course ; left at the end of Sophomore year. 

Victor Emel Piollet, Wysox., Bradford Go. — By protracted 
ill health, he was compelled to relinquish study after the begin- 
ning of Sophomore year. 

George Raesly, Mount Bethel. — In college first term of Fresh- 
man year. 

John Grandin Reading, Frenchtoicn, N. J. — Born at French- 
town, March 1, 1859. 

Ambrose Davies Reese, Parsons, Luzerne Co. — Born in South 
Wales, Sept. 30, 1854; in Technical course. 

Samuel Stewart Reid, Parkesburg, Chester Co.— Born near 
Parkesburg, Sept. 12, 1856. 

Tadaypaly Yeeraragava Roy, Guntoor, India. — A Brahmin 
convert, from the Teloogoo mission ; a special student in Fresh- 
man year. 

Rev. John Milton Scott, New Alexandria, Westmoreland Co. 
— In the ministry of the Baptist church, 

Robert Walter Sharp, Philadelphia. — Born at Philipsburg, 
Centre county, Nov. 2, 1857 ; study of law in view. 

Horatio Gates Shull, Martin''s Creek. — Merchant ; born at 
Martin's Creek, Nov. 9, 1858 ; in college Freshman year; after- 
wards at Gettysburg through Sophomore and part of Junior j^ear. 



Students— Class of 1880. 289 

Robert Green Smith, Hayesville, Chester Co. — Bom at Hayes- 
ville, March 9. 1859. 

William Wilberforce Smith, La Ci^osse, Wis. — Born April 
22, 1858 ; entered Sophomore ; ministr}' in view. 

George Wellington Snow, Salt Lake City, Utah. — Born at 
Salt Lake City, Aug. 30, 1856 ; in Civil Engineering course. 

Charles Henry Speakman, Coatesville, — In General Scien- 
tific course. Freshman and part of Sophomore year. 

Joseph Tetherman Stier, Easton. — Born at Johnsonsville, 
Northampton county, March 28, 1858. 

Frank Jacob Stotzer, Easton. — Born in Easton, Oct. 1, 1858 ; 
entered Sophomore. 

Montrose Graham Tull, West Philadelphia. — Born at New- 
Berne, N. C, Jan. 23, 1859; entered Sophomore; permanent 
address is 3938 Locust street. 

David Douglass Wagener, Easton. — Born in Easton, July 
25, 1859 ; received the second Douglass Prize in "77. 

Frank Blackiston Watkins, Odessa, Del. In General 

Scientific course. Freshman year. 

William Guy Wells, Pottsmlle, Schuylkill Co. — -Born at 
Pottsville, March 7, 1859. 

William Ivins Whilldin, Philadeli^hia. — Born in Philadel- 
phia, Sept. 2, 1860 ; in Technical course. 

William Nelson Wilbur, Camden, N. J. — Born at Pepperell, 
Middlesex county, Mass., March 25, 1860; in General Scientific 
course. 

John Schall Wilhelm, Cornwall, Lebanon Co. — In General 
Scientific course, first term of Freshman year. 

Mathew Cooper Woods, Boalshurg, Centre Co. — Born at 
Clearfield, May 31, 1851; received honorable mention in the 
Douglass course in "I7; the ministrj' in view. 

George Lawrence Xander, Easton. — Born in Easton, Oct., 
1858; study of law in view. 

William Stewart Young, Par kesburg, Chester Co.— Born near 
Parkesburg, July 11, 1859; the ministry in view. 



290 The Men of Lafayette. 

CLASS OF 1881. 

Absalom Peter Bachman, JSaston, — Born in Easton, March 
31, 1861. 

William Smith Barnes, Waynesboro^ Franklin Co. — Born at 
Mercer, Aug. 29, 1859 ; entered Sophomore; the ministry in view. 

Charles Milford Bergstresser, Berrysburg, Dauphin Co. — 
Born at Berrysburg, June 25, 1858 ; Scientific course, with Latin. 

John Franklin Biggs, Summit Bridge, New Castle Co., Del. 
— Born at Summit Bridge, Oct. 1, 1858 ; in Scientific course, with 
Latin. 

Henry Gough Birchby, 1831 Fairmount Ave., Philadelphia. 
— Born at Euxton, near Chorley, Lancashire, England, June 25, 
1853; the ministry in view. 

Thomas Blatchford Boughton, Troy, N. Y. — Born at Troy, 
Sept. 4, 1859. 

Charles Edward Bullock, Canton, Bradford Co. — In special 
Scientific course, from April, '78, to April, '79. 

James Campbell, Englishtown, 3Ionmouth Co., N.J. — Born at 
Ballenon, Armagh county, Ireland, Aug. 12, 1852; the ministry 
in view. 

Benjamin Percy Chain, Norristown. — Born at Norristown, 
Dec. 22, 1858; in General Scientific course. 

Frank Herring Chalfant, Martin's Ferry, Belmont Co., Ohio. 
— Born at Mechanicsburg, Pa., May 29, 1862; entered Sopho- 
more. 

William Parker Chalfant, Martin'' s Ferry, Belmont Co., 
Ohio. — Brother of the preceding; born at Saltsburg, Pa., Sept. 
3, 1860 ; entered Sophomore. 

Edwin Chamberlain, Dunmore, Lackawanna Co. — In Tech- 
nical course from '76 to '78, with classes of '80 and '81. 

Thomas Culbertson Clark, Martinis Ferry, Belmont Co.., 
Ohio. — Born at Martin's Ferry, Jan. 5, 1858 ; entered Sophomore 
class, having previously pursued the Freshman year with the 
class of '78 ; the ministry in view. 



Students — Class of 1881. 291 

Robert Merritt Collins, Ht. Clairsville, Ohio. — Entered 
Sophomore class. 

Julius Tozer Corbin, Athens, Bradford Co. — Born at Athens, 
March 15, 1860. 

William Dickey Crosby, Oxford, Chester Co. — Born at Ox- 
ford ; in Scientific course with Latin. 

Francis Miller Dare, Andover, Sussex Co., N. J. — In Tech- 
nical course. 

Charles William Davenport, Erie. — Born at Erie, June 
26, 1860 ; entered Sept., '77 in special course in Technical Depart- 
ment. 

John Rumsey Davies, Scranton. — Born at Abergavenny, Mon- 
mouthshire, England, Aug. 9, 1855; the ministry in view. 

Lester Coolidge Dickinson, Warrensburg, Warren Co., N.Y. 
— Born at Warrensburg, Aug. 25, 1861 ; in Scientific course with 
Latin. 

John Selim Ellsworth, i?ome, Bradford Co. — For some years 
a teacher; in Special course from Jan., '78 ; the ministry in view. 

William Herbert Emanuel, Catasauqua, Lehigh Co. — In 
Chemical course. 

Charles Conner Evans, Berwick, Columbia Co. — Born at 
Berwick, Jan. 9, 1 858 ; in General Scientific course. 

Joseph Horn Evans, Easton. — Born at Richmond, Northamp- 
ton county, April 9, 1860. 

Harry Crawford Frankenfield, Easton Born in Easton, 

Nov. 24, 1862. 

Leonel GEisENBERGER,Z/ancas^er. — In General Scientific course, 
first two terms of Freishman year. 

Clarence Elmer Griffin, Easton. — Born at Mauch Chunk, 
Oct. 6, 1859. 

John Henry Grossman, Salem, Salem Co., N. J. — Born at 
Salem, Jan. 17, 1854; in Scientific course, with Latin. 



292 The Men of Lafayette. 

Andrew Neely Hagerty, Went Alexander^ Washington Co. — 
Born at Mt. Hope, Washington county, March 27, 1852; for sev- 
eral years a teacher. 

Joseph Garrison Halsey, Swedesboro, Gloucester Co., N.J.— 
In General Scientific course; left college in October, 18t8. 

John Milton Ham, Washington Hollow^ Dutchess Co , N.Y. — ■ 
In Technical course ; left college in March, 1879. 

♦Charles Walter Hankinson, Meshoppen, Wyoming Go. — In 
Technical course, Freshman year. 

Joseph Harvey Harrison, Pittsburg. — In Special course, from 
January, 1879. 

Ward Beecher Harrison, Birdsboro, Berks Co. — In General 
Scientific course, Freshman year. 

John Miller Hayes, Montour sville, Lycoming Co. — 'In Gen- 
eral Scientific course, from Sept., 1877, to Dec, '78. 

Edward McElwaine Haymaker, Centerview, Johnston Co.^ 
Mo. — Born at Murraysville, Westmoreland county. Pa., Aug. 21, 

18.^9. 

Charles Herpich, New York City. — Born in New York City, 
Dec. 27 ; in college from Sept., 1877, to May, '78. 

James Breading Hogg, Connellsville, Fayette Co. — Born at 
Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Dec. 15, 1857. 

Robert Henry Hoover, Waynesboro, Franklin Co. — Born at 
Hempstead, Carroll county, Md., Sept. 23, 1853. 

Henry Budd Howell, Phillipsburg, N. J. — Son of Henry 
Budd Howell, of the class of '64. 

David William Humphrey. — Boi'n at Lansford, Carbon 
county, July 27, 1856 ; by profession a druggist; in Chemical 
course from Sept., '77, to March, '79. 

Samuel Gulick Hutchison, Bangor, Northampton Co. — Born 
at Richmond, Northampton county, Dec. 15, 1854 ; the ministry 
in view. 



Students— Class of i88 1. 203 

Dudley Marvin Irwin, Oswego, N. Y. — In Scientific course, 
with Latin, through Freshman year. 

George Massey Jones, Dover, Bel. — Born at Dover, Del., 
Jan. 3, 1861. 

Edward Luther Kenney, Griggsville, Pike Co., III. — Born at 

Griggsville, October, 1800. 

Pearce Kintzing, Lock Eaven.— -Born at Libert}^, Jan. 31, 
1861 ; in General Scientific course. 

William Koch, Phillipahui^g, N. J.— Born at Phillipsburg, 
Dec. 24, 1860. 

Clarence Reid Laird, Wheeling, West Virginia. — In college 
first term of Sophomore year. 

Levi Finley Laverty, Finleyville, Washington Go. — Born 
May 5, 1857 ; entered second term of Freshman year. 

Robert Benjamin Lehman, New Berne, Craven Co., N. C. — 
Born at Edenton, N. C, Feb. 12, 1860. 

Edward Lewers, Easton. — In General Scientific course. Fresh- 
man year. 

William Joseph McCarter, Erie. — In General Scientific 
course through Freshman year. 

Albert Clark McCauley, Altoona, Blair Go. 

Robert Watson McClelland, Pittsburg.— B'orn at Pittsburg, 
June 22, 1859 ; in Scientific course, with Latin. 

David McClure, Jr., Oakland, Alameda Co., Gal. — Born at 
Martinez, Contra Costa county, Cal., Aug. 17, 1856 ; entered 
Freshman second term, in Technical course. 

John Edmund McConaughy, 3It. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co. 
— In General Scientific course tlu'ough Freshman year. 

Albert Wylie McConnell, Pittsburg. —In special course in 
Scientific Department, Sophomore year. 

George King McCormick, Shijyj^ensburg, Cumberland Go. — 
Born at Shippensburg, Oct. 8, 1858; entered Sophomore; in 
Civil Engineering course. 



294 The Men of Lafayette. 

Samuel Edward Magill, Erie. — Born Feb. 18, 1861 ; entered 
Sophomore class in special course. 

William Jones Magill, JE'rte.— Born Feb. 26, 1859; left 
college in Sophomore year; is now in his father's dental office. 

Francis Andrew March, Jr., Easton. — Eldest son of Profes- 
sor March ;' born in. Easton, March 2, 1863. 

Andrew Ferguson Martin, Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. — 
At the end of Freshman year he became a student in Washington 
and Jefferson College. 

Wesley Martin, Bloomsbury, N. J. — In Special course Fresh- 
man year; candidate for the ministry in the Methodist Episcopal 
Church. 

Oliver Y. Mercer, Saltsburg, Indiana Co. — In General Sci- 
entific course one term. 

James Henry Maxwell, Pottstown, Montgomery Co. — Born at 
Limerick Square, April 10, 1859. 

Richard McCarty Michler, Toledo, Ohio. — Son of Gen, 
Nathaniel Michler, whose sketch is found on page 172 ; in Special 
course in Scientific Department. 

John Stone Morrison, Philadelj^hia. — Born at Saulsburg, 
Orange county, N. Y., Sept. 4, 1859. 

John Jack Neel, Mt. Pleasant, Westmoreland Co. — Born at 
Mt. Pleasant, Jan. 5, 185t. 

George Everett Osterhout,. Tunkhannock. — Born at La 
Grange, Wyoming county, March 31, 1858. 

William Emmet Osterhout, Tunkhannock. — Born at La 
Grange, Wyoming county, March 31, 1858. 

Frank Edwin Pellet, Papakating, Sussex Co., N. J. — Born at 
Papakating, Sept. 26, 1859. 

Edward Leicester Plunkett, Pittsfield, Berkshire Co., Mass. 
— In General Scientific course until his health failed ; left in De- 
cember, 187*7. 



Students— Class of i88t.. 295 

*JosEPH Franklin Stem Porter Born at Phoenixville, 

1860; died at bis home in Philadelphia, in first term of Fresh- 
man 3'ear. " His heart was early set on the holy ministry; with 
this in view, he studied and prayed, and lived, and died." 

George Reginald Radford, Washington., D. G. — In General 
Scientific course, from April, 1878, to April "79. 

John Howard Reeves, Fhiladelphia, — Bora in Philadelphia, 
March 1, 1867; in Special course. 

Nathan Grube Reiff, Pottstown Born at East Coventry, 

Chester county, June 11, 1869. 

Robert Reading Remington, Williamsport. — Born at Wil- 
liamsport, Aug. 7, 1869; entered Freshman second term; in 
General Scientific course. 

Elijah John Richard, Easton. — Born at Easton, January 16, 

1860. 

Irenus Richards, Dover., N,J> — Entered college from Eastou, 
remaining until third term of Freshman year; since April, 1879, 
a clerk in Dover. 

Daniel Rice Rosston, Philadelphia. — In college one term of 
Freshman year, when his health failed. 

William N. Ruby, North Liberty., Knoac Co.., Ohio. — Born at 
Coshocton, Ohio, Nov. 30, 1852; entered third term Freshman 
year. 

Andrew Eliason Sanborn, Mt, Pleasant., New Castle Co.., Del, 
' — Born at Leipsic, Kent county, Del., March 11, 1858. 

William Schneider, Summit Hill., Carbon Co> — In General 
Scientific course. 

Edwin Livingston Scott, Washington., D.C. — Brother of Rev. 
Walter Q. Scott, of class of '69; born at Fairfield, Iowa, Dec. 24, 
1856 ; entered Sophomore class. 

Frank Adois Sedgwick, Waterford., Erie Co. — In college 
Freshman 3'^ear. 



296 . The Men of Lafayette. 

William Oliver Semple, Easton. — Born in Easton, Jan. 17, 
1861 ; in Scientific course, witn Latin. 

Alfred Jones Shattuck, ■ Blossburg, Tioga Co.— Born at 
Corning, Steuben county, N. Y., Oct. 2, 1859; Scientific course. 

Samuel Eakin Shull, Martinh Greek., Northampton Co. — 
In college Freshman year. 

Edward Rheem Sponsler, New Bloomjield, Perry Co. — In 
college first two terms of Sophomore yeav. 

Charles Bunstein Stover, Easton. — Born at Riegelsville, 
Bucks county, July 14, 1861. 

Charles Richard Tbuitt, Hillsborough, Montgomery Co., 
Illinois. — Boi-n in Montgomery county in 1858 ; entered college 
in '78, in Special course. 

Charles Franklin Walter, Easton. — Born in Easton, May 
2, 1860 ; in Special course. 

Edward Overton Ward. — In General Scientific course part 
of Freshman ^^ear. 

Charles Nichols Williams, Welhbo7-o, Tioga Co. — Born at 
Wellsboro, Sept. 23, 1857 ; in General Scientific course. 

Edward Williamson, Bedford, Westchester Co., N. Y. — 
Born at Bedford, N. Y., Dec. 21, 1853 ; entered Freshman 
class third term, but was obliged to leave on account of failing 
eyesight ; at present teaching in Bedford. 

Charles Lissle Wilson, Cai^thage Jasper Co., 3Iissouri. — 
Born Jan. 23, 1856 ; entered Sophomore. 

James Wilson, Greenville, Del. — In Technical and Scientific 

courses: entered college in '76. 

"class of 1882. 

George Auchy, Pottstown, Montgomery Co. — In General Sci- 
entific course. 

Albert Hosmer Baker, Jackson Summit, Tioga Co. — Born 
at Maple Ridge, Sept. 19, 1857 ; in special studies ; the study of 
medicine in view. 



Students — Class of 1882. 297 

John Townsend Baker, Easton. — Brother of Prof. A. L. 
Baker, 

Benjamin Stanley Banks, Norristown. — Born at Norristown, 
July 20, 1861. 

Nathan Wallace Beddall, Port Carbon. — Born at New 
Philadelphia, Schuylkill county ; in General Scientific course. 

Milton Jacob Bliem, Slatington, Lehigh Co. — Born at How- 
ertown, Northampton county ; in Scientific course, with Latin. 

Charles Stratton Boulton, Oil City. 

Robert Henry Agnew Boyd, Belvidere, N. J. — Born at South 
Easton, July 20, 1861. 

John Dawson Boyle, Jr., Uniontown, Fayette Co. — In Scien- 
tific course, with Latin. 

Jacob Peter Breidinger, Stockerfown. — Born at Stockertown, 
Nov. 13, 1861. 

John Wright Campbell, ^Z^oona. — Born at Altoona, July 22, 
1860 ; entered second term. 

Percival Carskaddon, Lock Haven. — In General Scientific 
course. 

William Edward Coleman, Schooley''s Mountain, N. J. — In 
General Scientific course. 

Don Carlos Corbett, Clarion. — In Scientific course, with 
Latin. 

Harries Lothane Daddow, /St. plair, Schuylkill Co. — In 
General Scientific course. 

Lewis Redner Dalrymple, Lock Haven. — Born at Honesdale, 
Aug. 23, 1861. 

Edward Davis, Milton. — Born at Milton ; in Technical 
course. 

James Frear Day, Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co. — Born at 
Tunkhannock, Aug. It, 1859. 

38 



298 The Men of Lafayette. 

James Clifton Edgar, New York City. — Born in New York 
City, June 14, 1859 ; in Scientific course, with Latin. 

Frederick Vanduzer Frisbie, Orwell, Bradford Co. — Born 
at Orwell, July 13, 1856. 

John M. Gallaher, Greensburg, Westmoreland Go. — Born at 
Livermore, July 10, 1860 ; entered second term. 

Harry Scott Gay, Shenandoah,, Schuylkill Co. — In Technical 
course. 

Robert Wallace Givin, Manayimk., Philadelphia. — Born in 
Philadelphia, Nov. 3, 1860 ; the study of law in view. 

Samuel Pellman Glover, Hartleton, Union Co. — In Scientific 
course, with Latin. 

Colbert Huntington Greer, Painesville, Ohio. — In Techni- 
cal course ; entered in the second term. 

William Edward Hall, Geneva,, N. F.— In General Scien- 
tific course. 

Wallace Scott Harlan, Coatesville,, Chester Co. — Born at 
Coatesville, March 28, 1862. 

Edward Samuel Herbert, St. Clair., Schuylkill Co. — Born at 
St. Clair, Nov. 19, 1859. 

Jacob Augustus Hiller, Beech Pond., Wayne Co. — Born at 
Beech Pond ; in Scientific course, with Latin. 

Edward Washington Hummel, Harrisburg. — Born in Har- 
risburg. 

Valentine Hummel, Harrisburg. — Born in Harrisburg, May 
4, 1859 ; in General Scientific course. 

Mark Loudon Hyndman, Mauch Chunk. — Bom at Mauch 
Chunk, April 18, 1855 ; in college first term; now in the tele- 
graph service of the Central Railroad of New Jersey. 

George Leonard Jolly, Orangeville, Columbia Co. 

Oliver Sabold Keely, Roxboro. — In Technical course. 



Students — Class of 1882. 299 

QuiNCY Emory Cookman Kendall, Lenox, Mass. — Born at 
Lenox, Feb. 13, 1862. 

Alexander Carson LaBarre, Slateford, Northampton Co. — 
Born at Slateford ; was Principal of Bethlehem Public Schools, 
'74-8 ; in special studies. 

Marcus Bachman Lambert, StouVs, Noi^thampton Go. — Born 
at Stout's, Jan. 11, 1862. 

Walter Scott Lawall, Easton. — Born inEaston, Oct. 1, 1861. 

Charles Henry Lerch, Easton. — Born near Easton, May 21, 
1861. 

Charles Lose, Montoursville, Lycoming Go. — In General Sci- 
entific course ; before entering college a teacher. 

Charles Edwin Ludington, Albany, N. Y. — Born in Fair 
Haven, Conn., Sept. 19, 1858. 

Edward Dickinson McCulloch, Peoria, III. — Born at Peoria, 
Nov. 5, 1860. 

Samuel Johnson McCulloch, Erwin Gentre, Steuben Co., 
N. y.— Born at Tioga, Pa., April 24, 1856 ; in General Scientific 
course. 

Thomas Scott McKee, Saltsburg.— Born at Saltsburg, Oct. 
18, 1859. 

Alvan Mahkle, Philadelphia; — Born at Hazleton, Aug. 29, 
I860; in General Scientific course. 

Henry Martin Marple, Macon City, Mo. — Born in Ohio, 
Nov. 14, 1854 ; the ministry in view. 

Henry D. Maxwell, Easton. — Born in Easton, Aug. 3, 1862. 

Charles Stuart Melvin, East Oakland, Gal. — Born at Steu- 
benville, Ohio, Aug. 20, 1857 ; in General Scientific course. 

Nicholas Hunter Muhlenberg, Beading.— In General Scien- 
tific course, special studies. 

Frank Reber Musser, Muncy. — Born at Muncy, June 15, 
1860; in General Scientific course. 



300 The Men of Lafayette, 

William Baxter Myers, Bethlehem.— Born at Audenried, 
Carbon county, Nov. 6, 1858; in General Scientific coui-se. 

Rev. George Washington North, Uhlersville, Northampton 
Co. — In the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal church. 

John Wesley Nute, Easton. — Born at Burlington, Maine, 
Dec. 6, 1860; in Technical course. 

John Campbell Patton, Indiana, Indiana Co. — In General 
Scientific course, with Latin. 

Daniel Reed, Jr., Easton. — Born in Easton, Sept. 12, 1860. 

Joseph Tapt Rice, Albany, N.Y. — Born at Vernon, Oneida 
county, N. Y., March 14, 1859. 

James Wilson Roberts, Harrisburg. — In General Scientific 
course. 

David Ogden Rogers, Norristown. — Born at Norristown, 
June 4, 1860; in General Scientific course. 

George'Katzenbach Ronan, Trenton, N. J. — Born in Tren- 
ton ; in Technical course. 

John Nelson Root, Lenox, Berkshire Co., Mass. 

Thomas Jefferson Rupp, Allentown. 

Henry Augustus Sage, Jr., Easton. — Bom in Easton. 

George Flemming Sandt, Easton. — Born in Easton, April 
26, 1860. 

Louis GusTAV ScHULTZ, PhilUpsbvrg, N. J. — Born in Phil- 
lipsburg, Sept. 2, 1862; in Scientific course, with Latin. 

William Adam Seibert, Easton. — Born in Lehigh county, 
Feb. 10, 1859 ; before entering college he was an accountant in 
Philadelphia, and a teacher in Easton. 

Orrin Sebfass, Easton. — Born in Easton, Sept. 9, 1862. 

John Ppouts Stevens, Jersey Shore, Lycoming Co. — Born at 
Jersey Shore, March It, 1862 ; son of the Rev. Prof. Joseph 
Stevens, of the class of '42, 



Siiidcnts— Class of 1882 . 301 

Chaeles Henry Swan, Trenton, N. J. — Born in Trenton, 
Aug. 26, 1860 ; in Technical course. 

Charles Herbert Talmage, St. Louis, Mo Born in St. 

Louis, Dec. 6, 1862. 

Gabriel David Thomas, Altoona. — Born at Altooiia, March 
6, 1868; in General Scientific course. 

Joseph Timmins, Easton. — Born in Easton. 

Joseph Alexander Townsend, Bower Hill, Washington Co. — 
In Special studies. 

WiNTHROp Fuller Victor, Hohokus, N. J. — Born in Jersey 
City, N. J., Oct. 25, 1861; in General Scientific course, with 
Latin. 

Francis Edward Walke, Brooklyn, N,Y. — In General Scien- 
tific course. 

Robley Dunglison Walter, Butztown. — Born in Bethlehem 
township, June 15, 1859. 

Judson Perry Welsh, Orangeville, Columbia Co. — Born near 
Orangeville. 

Edward Ditman Wetmore, Warren. — In General Scientific 
course. 

James Frank Wilson, Washington, D. G. 

William Henry Woodring, Easton. — Born in Upper Naz- 
areth township, Northampton county, Dec. 7, 1854; in General 
Scientific course; the study of law in view. 



STATISTICS, 



In the following table, containing the occupations of the 
Alumni, students of theology are classed among ministers, and 
in like manner, students of law and medicine are placed with 
the lawyers and physicians ; druggists are classed with physi- 
cians. The sixth column embraces both Civil and Mining En- 
gineers ; the seventh column contains merchants and manufactur- 
ers; the eighth column contains officers of Banks and Railroads; 
in the tenth column are placed Army officers and others whose 
pursuits do not fall in the foregoing enumeration. 

PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS OF THE ALUMNI. 



Year of 
Graduation. 


i. 
% 

8 
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3 

I 

4 
4 
4 
4 
2 
I 
5 

13 
7 

15 
2 
I 
2 

3 
2 
I 

4 

8 

12 


1 

2 

I 
4 
4 
2 
2 
2 

6 

2 

4 
2 

4 

I 

3 
6 

9 
8 


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1 

I 

3 
I 

I 
2 

3 
I 

I 
I 

4 
I 

I 

I 
2 

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I 
I 

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3 

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I 
3 


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2 

2 

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2 
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I 

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I 


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2 
2 




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I 

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1836 

1837 

1838 

1839 

1840 

1841 

1842 

1843 

1844 

1845 

1846 

1847 

1848 

1849 

1850 

1851 

1852 

1853 

1854 

1855 

1856 

1857 


4 
3 
2 

9 
II 

6 
10 

5 

9 

9 

19 

14 

24 

3 
7 
3 
8 

5 
5 

18 
22 
27 



Statistics. 



303 



PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS OF THE ALUMNI— C^m^V«/^^. 



Yeai' of 
Graduation. 


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5 


3 


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3 


5 


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17 


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3 


4 


2 






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1861 . 










4 


5 




2 




2 




I 


I 




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1862 . 










5 


5 


2 


3 


I 




I 




I 


I 


19 


1863 










2 


2 






I 


1 










7 


1864 










5 


2 


4 




I 


I 


2 








15 


1865 










9 


2 








2 


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13 


1866 










4 


2 


2 


2 






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1 








1867 










4 


2 


I 


2 






I 








10 
16 


1868 










8 


3 


5 
















1869 










3 


4 








5 










12 


1870 










4 


6 


I 


5 




3 










19 


1871 










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9 


2 


9 


5 




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37 


1872 










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11 


3 


2 


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2 


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31 


187s 










9 


15 


3 


6 


4 








1 


2 


41 


1874 










6 


II 


5 




10 




I 


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33 


187s 










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13 


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5 


7 


3 




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32 
61 
61 
56 


1876 










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20 


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4 


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5 


2 


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1877 










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16 


6 


7 


14 


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18 


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10 


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1879 










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15 


6 


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796 are graduates, as enumerated above, and 264 are members 
of the Classes of 1880-1-2. There remain 1339 who are classi. 
fied as to their pursuits in life on the following page. 

In the following table the fourth column contains besides phy- 
sicians and medical students, 4 dentists and 20 druggists ; the 
seventh column contains 10 officers in the United States Army, 
56 engineers and 49 persons connected with the Railroad, Tele- 
graph and Postal service ; in the eighth column 200 are classed 
as merchants, and 74 as manufacturers; the ninth column con- 
tains the officers of Banks and Insurance Companies and Real 
Estate agents ; the eleventh column, entitled Others, includes 42 
who died early, 23 while students in college, and 19 others so 
soon after leaving college that their intended pursuit in life can- 
not be given : 



304 



The Men of Lafayette. 



PROFESSIONAL OCCUPATIONS OF THE FORMER STUDENTS, 















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37 


1834. . . . 


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9 


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75 


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3 


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51 


1836 .... 


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5 


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8 




I 




8 


30 


1837 .... 


3 


5 


I 




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8 




5 




2 


25 


1838. . . . 


3 


7 


7 




2 


2 


7 




3 


I 


9 


42 


1839 .... 


4 


4 


10 




I 


I 


8 




6 


2 


12 


48 


1840 .... 


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I 


3 








I 




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2 


9 


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4 


3 


2 






3 


4 




3 




5 


24 


1842 .... 


2 


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3 


3 




2 


7 




3 




7 


33 


1843 . . • • 


7 


2 


6 


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6 






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30 


1844 .... 


4 


3 


6 


2 


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6 


8 




2 


2 


3 


39 


1845 . . . • 


3 


5 


I 


I 




3 


8 




2 


4 


6 


33 


1846 .... 


4 


II 


7 


2 


I 


2 


8 




3 


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45 


1847 .... 


7 


5 


5 






2 


6 




2 


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29 


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10 


1858 .... 


3 


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4 


2 


2 


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19 


1859. . . . 


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2 






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1863. . . . 




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3 






2 


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1864 . . . . 




2 


2 








4 






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10 


1865 . . . . 




I 










4 










6 


1866 . . . . 












I 
I 


I 

2 






I 
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3 


1867 . . . . 




2 


3 


I 




II 


1868 . . . . 


2 




2 


I 




2 


2 










10 


1869 . . . . 


2 


5 


2 






I 


7 






2 


I 


22 


1870 . . . . 




3 


5 


I 


I 


5 


5 






I 


I 


22 


1871 . . . . 


4 


3 


4 


I 


2 


3 


14 




I 


I 


2 


35 


1872 . . . . 


S 


8 


4 


4 


I 


2 


7 




3 


3 


3 


40 


1873 • • . 


2 


5 


5 


4 


I 


6 


5 




2 


2 


8 


40 


1874. . . • 


5 


7 


9 


4 


I 


9 


22 


2 


I 


I 


3 


64 


1875 . . . . 


2 


8 


6 


5 


I 


5 


9 


I 


4 


2 


5 


48 


1876 . . . . 


S 


3 


8 


^ 


I 


7 


15 








15 


59 


1877. . . • 


3 


9 


8 


8 




13 


10 


3 


2 




8 


64 


1878 . . . . 


I 


9 


8 


3 


I 


9 


16 


3 




2 


15 


67 


1879. • • • 




II 


4 


3 


I 


5 


13 


I 


I 


3 


8 


50 


1880 . . . . 
























88 


I88I . . . . 
























97 


1882. . . . 












. . 












79 


Total . . 


125 


194 


\ 17S 


66 


2C 


•> "5 


274 


26 


62 


48 


225 


159 



Statistics. 305 

Note on the Foregoing Table. — The attention of the reader 
is called to the statement in the preface of this volume as to the 
difficulty of obtaining a complete roll of those who have matricu- 
lated at Lafayette. In the paragraph below it is stated that 615 
had been matriculated up to the date there named ; the preceding 
pages give but 610, showing that the compiler has missed but five 
— at least up to the year 1845 — in his endeavor to prepare a perfect 
roll. In the Tenth Baccalaureate Address, entitled A Plea for 
Northeastern Pennsylvania, delivered in September, 1845, Presi- 
dent Junkin said : 

" Including those who receive their dijiiomas to-day, sixty-eight young men 
have completed their course with us and been graduated. But then it is 
also true that six hundred and fifteen students have been received within our 
walls ; and have been instructed, more or less extensively, in the English, Latin, 
Greek, French, German, Italian, and Spanish languages; in Mathematics, Chem- 
istry, and Natural Philosophy ; in Mental and Moral Science, Logic and Political 
Economy ; in short, in all studies that ordinarily enter into the course of an 
American College. The intellects of hundreds have been waked up to a con- 
sciousness of their own energies, whose names do not appear in our Triennial. 
Of these six hundred and fifteen, fifty-seven are known to have graduated at 
other colleges ; and, I have not a doubt, many whom we know not have done the 
same. It is therefore exceedingly probable that the number of students who have 
participated largely in our institutions, but have received literary honors elsewhere, 
is much larger than that of our own Alumni. 

" That things should take this course is extremely natural. The contrary would 
have been unnatural, and was therefore not at all expected. A young college, of 
slender resources, struggling into existence in the face of poverty and the compe- 
tition of well-established institutions, whose fame fills the land, and the seal of 
whose approbation is a passport to the reputation of scholarship, even when there 
may purchance be little beyond, must lay out her accounts to plow and sow, and 
then step aside till others reap. Our probation in this line, is, however, we be- 
lieve, nearly closed. But again, of the five hundred and forty-seven, whom we 
have had under our caie, and who have not graduated with us, thirty-two are 
known lo have entered the ministerial profession, twenty-five the medical, and 
twenty-three the legal, making an average of eighty ; and undoubtedly many 
others of whom we are not informed have done the same. It is highly probable 
the whole number exceeds one hundred. Add to this our graduates, viz: nine- 
teen ministers, thirteen lawyers, and two doctors, and you have a general aggre- 
gate of a hundred and thirty-four of our pupils, laboring in the learned profes- 
sions. Moreover, of the remaining four hundred and eighty-one, very many are 
engaged in business, profitable to themselves and to the country — agricultural, 
mechanical, mercantile ; besides a large number are yet prosecuting studies. 

"It is proper, further to remark, that the sojourn of hundreds who have left us, 
has been of all varieties as to duration, from a single session, to two, three or 

39 



306 



The Men of Lafayette. 



four years ; as to degrees of advancement, some having given attention to Eng- 
lish studies, most to classical and scientific; from the academical department to 
the close of the Junior year. This may perhaps suggest the objection, ' Have 
you not aided into professional life many defective scholars?' Be this as it may, 
we wash our hands of all the evils of this .immaturity. It is no part of our plan 
to reduce the standard of education, and none more than we can deplore all 
short cuts into the learned professions. If all to whom we have taught hie, haec, 
hoc, had seen their way clear to comply with our wishes and abide a full course, 
we should never have given occasion to the reproach which these paragraphs are 
designed to wipe away." 

PROFESSIONAL PURSUITS, BY PERIODS. 



■» 

Profession. 


Alumni. 


Former Students. 


Total 




1836-48 

64 

31 

13 

8 

I 

{ ' 

I 
I 
I 


1849-63 i864-7g 


1832-48 
82 

93 

84 

17 

8 

91 
21 
8 
29 
10 
39 

17 
144 

643 


1849-63 

12 

25 
24 

9 

2 

15 
II 

3 
6 

2 

7 

1 1 
12 

139 


1864-7^ 

31 

76 

70 

40 

10 

94 \ 

42/ 

45 

24 

14 

16 

20 

69 

551 




Ministers 

Lawyers 

Phys. and Druggists 
Profs, and Teachers 

Editors 

Merchants .... 
Manufacturers. . . 
Engineers .... 
R.R,& Army Officers 
Bank Officers . . . 

Farmers 

Early Dead and Un- 
classed .... 
Unknown .... 


58 

55 
20 

15 

5 

10 

2 

3 

I 

5 
5 

"179"' 


. "3 

149 

50 

51 

5 

28 

68 
4 

5 

5 

14 


360 
429 
261 
140 
31 
317 

127 

67 

33 

72 

67 
225 


Total 


125 


492 


1 2129 



PROFESSIONAL PURSUITS, BY PERCENTAGE. 









Alumni. 




For 


mer Students. 




Profession. 














1864-79 


Total 




1836-48 
•51 


1849-63 
■32 


1864-79 
•23 


1832-48 
■13 


1849-63 




Ministers 


.09 


06 


•17 


Lawyers 




■25 


•31 


■30 


.14 


.18 


.14 


.20 


Phys. and Druggists 




.10 


.11 


.10 


•13 


■17 


■13 


.12 


Profs, and Teachers 




.06 


.08 


.10 


•03 


.06 


.07 


.07 


Merchants .... 


f 


.04 


.06 


.06 


.14 


.11 


•17 


•IS 


Manufacturers. . . 


\ 








•03 


.08 


.08 




Engineers .... 




.01 


.01 


.14 


.01 


.02 


.08 


.06 


R.R.& Army Officers 


\ 








•05 


•05 


.04 


■03 


Bank Officers . . . 


.02 


.02 


.02 


.01 


.01 


.02 


.02 


Editors 




.01 


•03 


.01 


.01 


.01 


.02 


.01 


Farmers 




.00 


•03 


.01 


.06 


•05 


•03 


•03 


Early Dead and Un- 


















classed .... 




.00 


•03 


•03 


•03 


.08 


.04 


.03 


Unknown 










•23 


.08 


.12 


.11 



Statistics. 307 

Public Positions. — Of the men of Lafayette, so far as known 
to the writer of these pages, 187 have held office, as enumerated 
below : Ten have been Members of Congress, viz : Messrs. 
Smithers, H. G. Fisher, J. M Harris, I. D. Clawson, B. F. Junkin, 
P. Johnson, Gen. Longnecker, Alexander Ramsey, the first Con- 
gressman from Minnesota, afterwards Governor and U.S. Senator ; 
Samuel McLean, the first Delegate from Montana, and Gen. 
George P. Ihrie, the first Delegate from Alaska. 

Two have been Governors, Ramsay and Gen. Hoy t, the present 

Governor of Pennsylvania. 

* 
Twenty-one have been Judges or Associate Judges, viz : Hons. 

Wm. A. Porter, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, and of 

the Court of Alabama Claims, Mej^ers, Campbell, Randolph, 

Sherrerd, T^'ler, Barcroft, Robeson, Ewing, Junkin, Van Reed, 

Walker, Finletter, Schall, Longnecker, Hoyt, Hunt, Skinner, 

Goepp, Galloway, Hamburger, Vastine, and Kirkpatrick. 

Thirty-six have been Members of the Legislature, in eight 
States ; Messrs. Cresswell and Francis being Speakers of the 
State Senate. 

Twenty-six have held the office of Prosecuting Attorney ; 
fourteen, SheriflT or Mayor ; twenty-six. County or City Superin- 
tendent of Schools; and as Consuls, Electors of Presidents, 
members of Constitutional Conventions, and minor offices of 
government, eighty-five. 

Educational. — Those who have been Presidents of Colleges 
are Rev. Drs. Heckman, Armstrong, Craig, Alexander, Phelps, 
Brakeley, and Dr. Chauvenet. 

Professors in Theological Seminaries are Drs. Elliott, Green, 
Watts, Alexander, Craig and Wright. 

Professors in Medical Colleges are Drs. Pratt, Parvin, Marvin, 
Yastine, and Ott. 

Professors in Lafayette, seventeen ; in other colleges, nineteen. 
'Tutors in Lafayette, twenty-nine ; in other colleges, four. 

Foreign Missionaries are twenty-two in number. For list, 
see page 62 of Prof Owen's Historical Sketches. Those engaged 
in the Domestic Mission service number about one hundred. 



308 



The Men of Lafayette, 



The Alumni who have been 
ette are the following : 
M. N. Appleget. 
N. Bannatyne. 
C. E. Burns. 
S. J. Coffin. 

C. Corss. 

W. W. Cottingham. 
J. G. Diefenderfer. 
J. T. Doran. 
. F. W. Edgar. 
E. Ferrier. 
S. R. Gayley. 
W. H. Green. 
J. B. Grier. 
J. J. Hardy. 
Joseph Junkin. 
G. T. Keller. 

D. B. King. 
H. T. Lee. 

I. Loewenthal. 
C. Mclntire. 



members of the Faculty of Lafay- 

John Meigs. 
W. G. Meigs. 
David Moore. 
J. W. Moore. 
J. E. Nassau. 
Robert Newton. 
W. F. P. Noble. 
W. B. Owen. 
T. C. Porter. 
W. H. Schuyler. 
W. Q, Scott. 
J. R. Shimer. 
J. Snyder. 
Joseph Stevens. 
W. S. Sweeny. 
N. Taylor. 
D. J. Waller, Jr. 
B. C. Youngman. 
R. B. Youngman. 



Literary. — Among authors we find the names of Drs. Green, 
Elliott and E. D. Yeomans as contributors to the American edi- 
tion of Lange's Commentary, besides works bearing their own 
names ; other writers in the department of theology and religious 
literature are Rev. Drs. Ramsey, Lowrie, Porter, Janvier, and 
R. H, Nassau, and Messrs. Loewenthal, Noble, Mills, Menaul, 
E. M. Long, and Bransby. The Scriptures have been translated 
into other tongues by Messrs. Loewenthal, Mills, Janvier, and 
Menaul. 

Writers in literature, science, and history are W. A. Porter, 
T. C. Porter, Smithers, R. J. Wright, Craft, Coffin, Boyd, J. B. 
Grier, Clyde, Bryan, Owen, Anderson, Williams, Craig, Chaue- 
net, Harkness, Mcllvaine, Rodenbough, Ott, E. A. Barber, Alden, 
Latta, Marvin. 

Beside seventy-two bound volumes written b}' those just named, 
there have been produced a large number of monographs in pam- 



Statistics. 309 

phlet form, addresses, sermons, etc., of which the compiler of this 
volume has a partial collection, now numbering about one hun- 
dred and fifty. 

Eight have received the degree of LL.D., — each from a differ- 
ent college. 

Thirty-one have received the degree of D.D., — conferred b^' 
fourteen colleges. 

Military Twelve are reported as having served their coun- 
try in the Mexican War: Lieut. James McKeen and Surgeon 
Robert Newton, who lost their lives therein ; and Gen. A. Porter, 
Cols. Cummins, H. H. Green, and Longnecker, and Messrs. C.B. 
Mallery, E. G. Mallery, C. R. Webster, J. F. Bachman, J. W. 
Miner, and J. W. Boyd. 

In the service of the Confederate States ten are reported as 
having been engaged, one of these being opposed by two of his 
brothers on the Union side. 

In the service of the Union, in the late war, were 222. For an 
enumeration, see" page 26 of Prof. Owen's Historical Sketches. 
Tliose who fell in the service of the Union were : 

Colonel R. A. Oakford. 

Chaplain H. S. Howell. 

Captain E. S. Carrell. 

Captain S. M. Layton. 

Captain R. M. McCormick. 

Captain Isaiah Moore. 

Assistant Surgeon J. R. Hilton. 

Adjutant W. S. Briggs. 

Lieutenant J. M. Annan. 

Lieutenant E. A. Barnet. 

Lieutenant Joseph Castles. 

Sergeant-Major R. S. Parker. 

Sergeant W. H. Alexander. 

Sergeant Samuel H. Kendig. 

Private John H. Buckley. 

Private Daniel J. Carey. 

Private Luther Davis. 

Private Henry B. Howell 

Private Robert M. Mann. 

Private Henry Stothoff. 



310 



The Men of Lafayette. 



DECEASED. 



Class. 


Alumni. 


Former 
Students. 

26 


Class. 






Alunmi. 


Former 
Students. 


1832 




1856 . . 




5 


8 


1833. 












12 


1857 












4 


2 


1834. 












30 


1858 














2 


1835. 












13 


1859 












5 


3 


1836 










I 


II 


i860 














4 


1837 . 












6 


1861 












5 


3 


1838. 










I 


14 


1862 












2 


2 


1839. 










3 


23 


1863 












3 


4 


1840 . 










3 


2 


1864 












I 


I 


1841 . 










4 


6 


1865 












I 


I 


1842 . 










6 


12 


1866 














I 


1843- 










3 


6 


1867 














I 


1844 . 










4 


14 


1869 














2 


1845. 










4 


14 


1870 












I 


I 


1846 . 










6 


12 


1872 














4 


1847 . 










4 


14 


1873 












2 


3 


1848 










5 


4 


1874 












3 


I 


1849 . 










I 


3 


1875 














2 


1850. 










2 


I 


1876 












I 




1851 . 










I 




1877 












I 


2 


1853. 










I 


, 


1878 














2 


1854. 










2 
3 


I 
7 


1879 














I 


1855 


Total . 






88 


281 


Entire number of matricula 


nts . . 




• 2399 


Known to be deceased . . 






• 369 


Number living . 






. 2030 



INDEX 

TO THE ALUMNI. 



Acton, Isaac O. 1876 


Adams, Frederick H 


73 


Joseph B. W. 


65 


Aiken, Rev. Thomas J. 


65 


Aiman, James A. 


78 


Albuquerque, Fernando de 


76 


Alexander, Rev. H. S. 


55 


John B. 


77 


Rev. Joseph K. 


76 


Milton R. 


76 


Thomas B. 


45 


Walter L. 


77 


Rev. William C. 


73 


William J. M. 


77 


Allen, Hon. Robert P. 


55 


AUis, Elisha 


55 


Dr. Oscar H. 


64 


Allison, William M. 


55 


Anderson, Dr. George B. 


74 


William C. 


73 


Andrews, Clarence N. 


76 


William P. 


53 


Angle, Eleazer J. 


73 


George A. 


76 


Appelman, Lloyd P. 


73 


Apple, (_ harles A. 


55 


Appleby, Dr. James F. R. 


64 


Appleget, Moses N. 


6i 


Armstrong, Elliot C. 


79 


Arthur, Rev. Richard 


68 


Axtell, Rev. John S. 


71 


Ayres, Horace B. 


78 


Wallace S. 


72 


Bacon, James 


76 


Baker, Herbert L. 


68 


William E. 


77 


Baldwin. F. A R. 


61 


Dr. Neilson A. 


58 


Banks, Rev. David S. 


56 


Bannard, Charles H. 


77 


Bannatyne, Rev. Ninian 


42 


Barber, Dr. Isaac 


76 


John M. 


47 


Laird H 


71 


Samuel W. 


40 


William E. 


40 


Barclay, Richard D. 


56 


Barnard, Rev. Joseph H. 


57 


Barnes, Rev. Stephen G. 


73 


Barrett, Edward N. 


73 


Joseph 


61 


Barrick, Emery S. 


73 


Baskin, Benjamin F. 


39 


Dr. George W. 


42 


Bausman, John W. B. 


74 


Bayless, William H. 


74 


Bechdolt, Adolph F. 


66 


Beers, Edwin C. 


77 


Beggs, Rev. Joseph 


51 


Belville, Jacob E. 


79 


Benedict, Alanson 


60 


Rev. Benjamin G. 


59 


Benson, Rev, Enoch 


73 



Bergstresser, Peter S. 1867 

Berlin, Allen P. '76 

Bertolet, Dr. Robert M. ^66 

Besson, Samuel A. 1° 

Biddle, Clarence D. '_"5 

Bilimeyer, Franklin P. 73 

Bimm, Henry H. '79 

Joseph E. '77 

Bixby, Charles W. [76 

Maynard '76 

Blanchard, EvanM. '56 

BIythe, Dr. Smith G. '6° 

Boal, Rev. James VV. ]68 

Bonham, Horace '5^ 

Bovard. Dr. William C. '74 

Boyd, James P. '59 

John A. M. ]57 

Boyer, Edmund S. '79 
Bradley, Rev. Matthew H. '71 

Brakeley, Rev John H. '39 

Brensinger, Joseph H. 70 

Bright, James W. |77 

Brittain, Rev. John '47 

Brobston, William C. '72 

Brodhead, Charles '44 

Brown, Dr. Alfred '68 

Charles G [79 

Rev. John '4^ 

Silas B. '76 

William D. [63 

Bryan, Rev. Edward '71 

Richard W. D. '7° 

Bryden, Alexander, '71 

Bryson, Rev. Robert C. '55 

Bubb, Asher D. '77 

Buchanan, John A. '76 

Buckwalter, Jacob P. '77 

Budd, Whitfield H. [57 

Bunstein, Rev. Henry L. '64 

Burgner, Augustus J. '79 

Burns, Rev. Charles E. '73 

Burrows, Rev. John '57 

Byles, Frederick G. '79 

Cain, Rev. William H. '58 

Cairnes, Rev. William G. '65 

Callen, Rev. James H. '46 

Camp. Rev. Philander '41 

Campbell, Rev. David H. '72 

Gen. Edward L. '55 

Canfield, Rev. Charles K. '70 

Carey, Henry S. '75 

Carothers, Robert H. '75 

Carrell, Rev. James W. '45 

Case, Elijah R. '74 

Dr. Levi W. '74 

Castles, Joseph '59 

Caughey, Reed '79 

Chandler, William '55 

Chapman, Charles \. A. '46 

James T. 

Chism, Richard E. '76 

Chidsey, Charles F. '64 

Churchill, John C, Jr. '78 



Clark, Rev. Robert L. 1874 

Clarke, Rev. John P. '56 

Clendenin, John W. '76 

Cline, Rev. Enoch C. '57 

Rev. John W. '58 

Clyde, Rev. John C. '66 

Codding, John W. '77 

Coffin, Rev. Selden J. '58 

William G. '78 

CoUyrus, Athanasius J. '42 

Cone, Norris H. '71 

Conklin, Rev. Newton J. '61 

Conkling, Edward P. '67 

Cook, Rev. Darwin '42 

Rev. Milton L. '73 

Newton S. '72 

Corss, Charles '56 

Dr. Frederick '62 

Cottingham, William W. '48 
Coulter, Rev. David,D.D. '38 

Covode, John A. '76 

Cowan, Rev. John '71 

Craft, Rev. David '57 

Craig, Hon. Allen '55 

Thomas '75 

Craighead, Charles A. '79 

Jesse V. '75 

Crawford, James C. '71 

John M. '71 

Creveling, John W. '75 

Crosby, Reuben H. '48 

Crowell, Thomas R. '77 

Cruikshank, Francis M. '61 

Curtis, George P. '77 

Dale, William W. [75 

Dannehower, William F. '76 

Davidson, Albert H. '73 

David D. '77 

Davies, Rev. Enoch L '74 

Davis, Luther '61 

Rev. Robert H. '52 

Rev. William C. '48 

Dawes, James K. '62 

Dean. Rev. Oliver S. '58 

Rev. William H.. '58 

Deitzler, Martin L. '79 

Dentler, Henry C. '59 

Depue, Rev. Moses A. '63 

Derr, Andrew F. '75 

Dewalt, Arthur G. '74 

Dewitt, Silas W. '6g 

Dickey, Rev. Samuel '37 

Dickson, John R. '77 
Diefenderfer, Prof. John G. '73 

Dietterich, Rev. H. A. '51 

Diffenderfer, Frank A. '72 

Dilts, Isaiah N. '44 

Dobson, Rev. A. T. '48 

Augustus T. '79 

Donaldson, Rev. John '46 

Donnelly, James '62 

Doran, James T. '48 

Dorrance, John B. '54 



312 



The Men of Lafayette. 



Dorris, John D. i 

Col. William 
Doty, Edmund S. 

Lucien W. 
Douglass, Benjamin, Jr. 

William A. 
DuBois, Dr. Frank L. 

John L. 
Dunlap, James A. 
Durham, Joseph E. 
Durnford, Dr. Thomas M. 
Dusinberre, Daniel S. 

Eckard, Rev. LeightonW. 
Eckels, Mervin J. 
Edgar, Charles H. 

Francis W. 
Elcock, Rev. Thomas 
Elliott, Alexander, Jr. 

Rev. Charles, D.D. 

James 

James P. 
Emmert, Jonathan 
Emmons, Harry 
English, Theodore C. 
Evans, Montgomery 

Fennel! C. 
Eystet, Leonard B. 

Fackenthall, Benjamin F. 
Fairbairn, Rev. Alexander 
Fairchild, Albert C. 
Farber, Edwin J. 
Farquhar, Rev. John 

Thomas M. 
Fassitt, Thomas 
Fee, William T. 
Ferriday, Joseph C. 

William C. 
Ferrier, Rev. Edsall 
Field. William G. 
Filson, Rev. William H. 
Finney, Rev. Spencer L. 
Fisher, Francis G. 

Hon. Horatio G. 

Howard M. 
Fisler, Samuel L. 
Fleming, Robins 
Flinn, Irvine M. 
Foresman, Rev. E. P. 

Rev. R. B. 
Forney, Charles B. 
Fowler, Rev. John 
Fox, Edward J., Jr. 

Rev. John 
Freeman, Rev. D. K. 

John S. 

Rev. Samuel A. 
Fuller, John B. 

John T. 
Fullerton, Angtts L. 
Fulton, Andrew C. 

Rev. William S. 

Gaines, William P. 
Galbreath, Thomas C. 
Gait, Smith P. 
Garber, Abram P. 
Gayley, James 

Rev. Samuel A. 

Rev. Samuel R. 

Thomas G. 
Gemmill, Rev. William 
Gilfillan, Joel S. 
Gilland, James W. 
Gillespie Thomas B. 



878^ Glenn, Dr. A. L. 
'40J Glover, Horace P. 
Goble, Rev. Gershora 
Godshalk, Alfred S. 
Good, Rev. James I. 
Goodwin, Abram 
Graham, Rev. Jacob B. 
Grant, James J. 

Lewis 
Gray, Rev. Thomas M. 
Green, Henry 

Traill, Jr. 
Rev. W. Henry 
Greer, James R. 
Grier, Isaac X. 

Rev. John B. 
71 , Lemuel G. 

41 William A.M. 

78, Griffith, Jacob K. 
Griggs, John W. 
Grotz, Hervey H. 
Gulich, Rev. Hervey 
Gutelius, Rev. Fisher 



1S50 
71 
48 
65 



Haines, Reuben 
Hale, James T. 
Hamburger, Hon. Herman 
Hammond, Charles 
Hand, Isaac P. 
Hardin, Rev. Oscar J. 
Hardy, Prof. J. J. 
Harris, Frank G. 

Jonathan M. 
Harrison, Russell B. 

William H. 
Harvey, Dr. Olin F. 

Oscar J. 
Hay, Thomas A. H. 
Hayes, Edgar W. 
John K., Jr. 
Dr. Joseph H. 
Hays, Dr. Robert M. 

Stephen W. 
Hazelton, William B. 
Heany, Rev. Ezra S. 
Heberton, Rev. William W. 
Heck, Francis 
Heckman, Rev. George C. 

John W. 
Heebner, Alfred 

Charles 
Heller, Dr. Jacob B., Jr. 

William G. 
Henderson. Rev. John R. 
Hendry, John B. 
Henry, Dr. William P. S. 
Henschen, Charles C. Jr. 
Heroy, Rev. P. B. 
Hess, Dr. Robert J. 
Hetrich, Frank D. 
Howard R. 
Willis S. 
Hews, Rev. William B. 
Heydrick, Rev. David M. 
Hicks, James H. 
Hilliard, Clinton 
Hillis.ElishaL. 
Hillman, Conway W. 
Hinkle, Frank W. 
Hinkson, John B. 
Hoch, Zacharias C. 
Hoffman, Joseph E. 
Dr. Lewis A. 
Hogeland, Abram 
Albert H. 



59 Hogg, James R. 



Hohl, Stewart M. 1879 

Holmes, Samuel '49 

Holt, Jacob H. 
Hopkins, Washington W. 
Houser, Samuel H. 
Houston, Rev. James T. 
Howard, Thomas 
Howell, Abram B. 

Rev. Jesse L. 
Howland, Hiram B. 
Hoyt, Edward E, 
Hudson, John B. 
Huey, Andrew P. 
Huggins, George L. 
Hulings, Forrest 
Hulshizer, Abram C- 
Hunt, Henry C. 

Willis M. 
Hunter, Rev. James D. 
Husted, Rev. John N. 
Hyde, Rev. Wesley M. 

Irwin, Rev. John C. 

Jacobson, Terence 
Jackson, Herbert H. 
James, Rev. David M. 

Robert E. 

Rev. William H. 
Jamison, Robert 
Janvier, Dr. Edgar 
Jenks, Rev. William A. 
Jennings, Dr. Charles C. 
Johnson, Rev. Samuel L. 
Johnston, Robert S. 

W. S. 
Jones, Rev. Charles J. 

Rev. George E. 

Isaac T. 

Matthew H., Jr. 

William J. 
Junkin, Rev. Ebenezer D 

Joseph 

Kachline, Stephen V. 
Kaercher, George R. 

Samuel H. 
Kase, John H. 
Keene, Henry E. 
Keeney, Jackson P 
Keim, Frederick E. 
Keller, Rev. George T. 
Kemble, C'lay 
Kemper, Hathaway 
Kennedy, Daniel M. 

Rev. Edward 

Frank 

Rev. James F., D.D. 

Robert P. 

Dr. Samuel S. 

Rev. Thomas 

Dr. William 

William 
Kent, W. St. George 
Ker, Henry M. 

Joshua W. 
Kerr, Henry D. T. 

Rev. James H. 

William S. 
Kidd, George W. 
Killough, Edward M. 
King, Prof. David B. 
Kinkead, Alexander L. 
Kinnear, Frank D. 
Knecht, Dr. Cyrus 

Harry 



Index. 



313 



Knipe, Rev. Samuel W. i 
Knox, Rev. E. J. 

Lamberton, Edwin H. 
Lane, Rev C. R. 
Larzelere, Nicholas H. 
Laughlin, Jaii.cs A. 
Law, John B. 
Lawrence, George R. 
Leard, Rev. Asa 

Rev. 1 homas W. 
Lee, Charles H 

Henry T. 
Leech, John ISL 
Lewis, Bradley W. 

Charles F. 

George M. 

Rev. James N. 

John iM. 
Lichtenwallner, Ellis R. 

John B. 
Liggett, Rev. John A. 
Little, Dr. William R. 
Lowenthal, Rev. Lsidor 
Logan, Arthur C. 

Dr. Harry V. 

Samuel G. 

Rev. Thomas D. 
Long, Rev. Abram W. 

Simon C. 

Rev. Thomas S. 

Wi.'liam S. 
Love, Dr. John J. H. 
Lowrie, Rev. JohnM. 
Ludwig, Rev. Alvin T. 

McAnuliy, Rev. Oram H. 
McCachren, Robert 
McCahan, Rev. John M. 
McCamant. Hon 1 homas 
McCarragher, Samuel 

Thomas M. 
McCauley, Herman K. 
McClure, Oliver C. 
McComb, Arthur M. 
McCormick, Charles S. 

Robert M. 
McCoy, A. Ramsay 

John F. 
McCurdy, Dr. William H. 
McDonogh, Dr. David K. 
McDowell, George D. 
McFetridge, Rev. Nathaniel 
McGalliard, William 
McCjowan, Rev. James A. 
Mclntire, Dr. Charles, Jr. 

Henry M. 
Mclntyre, Dr. George D. 
McKeen, James 

Thomas L. 
McKenzie, Dr. William 
McKinney, Rev. William W. 
McKissick, James C. 
McKnight, Harmar D. 

James A. 

Woodruff 
McLaury, Edward A. 
McLean, James L. 

William S. 
McMurtrie, William 
McNinch. Rev. Thomas 
Mackall, William H. 
Mackenzie, James C. 
Mann. Robert M. 
Markel, Jacob L. 
Markle, George B., Jr. 



Marquis, John S. 
Marshall, Gilbert N. 
Martin, Joseph 
]Martin, Rev. Samuel A. 
Marvin, Charles D. 
Mateer, William N. 
May, William A. 
Meigs, Rev. George D. 

Prof. John 

William G. 
Melick, Rev. Philip W. 
Menaul, Rev. James A. 

Rev. John 
Menline, Emanuel 
Merrill, Charles 
Meyers, Hon. Oliver H. 
Michler, Ambrose K. 

Francis 

Dr. Henry D. 
Miller, Dr, Jacob A. 

Rev. James E. 

William M. 
Mills, Rev. Charles R. 
Miner, Joshua L. 
Monaghan, James 
Montelius, William P. 
Moore, Prof. David 

Rev. Francis H. 

Rev. James G. 

Prof. James W. 

Rev. San.uel M. 
Morgan, Rev. John J. A. 
Mouk, John A. 
Mulford, Samuel D. 

Nassau, Rev. Jos. E., D.] 

Dr. William W. 
Neal, Clinton W. 
Nefr, Edmund 

William L. 
Neighbor, James H. 
Neilson, Rev. Samuel B. 
Nevin, David W. 
Newkirk, Dr. Nathaniel 1 
Newton, Dr. Robert 

Rev. Thomas H. 
Noble, Rev. William F. ] 
Nourse, Dr. Charles J. 

Rev. James M. 

Officer, Charles T. 
Oldt, Franklin T. 
Olmstead. Garrick M. 
Owen, Prof. William B. 

Pardee, Frank 

Israel P. 
Park, Rev Clearfield 
Parker, Roswell S. 
Parks, Rev. Joseph J. 
Parsons, Rev. W. S. 

Winfield L. 
Patterson. Rev. B. F. 

James L. 

Rev. Joseph A. 
Patton, Dr. John B. 
Paull, Joseph R. 
Peacock, Edward 
Pershing, Howell T. 
Person, Prof. Jacob 
Phillips, George W. 
Pfouts. John M. 
Piatt, Frank H. 

James W. 
Pi'gtam, Arthur J. 
Plack, George W. 



18761 

'77 

'59 

18771 



Plumb, George H. R. 1877 

Pollock, Rev. George C. '61 

Hamilton H. '75 

Pollock, Rev. John F. '71 

Pomeroy, Rev. John J. '57 

Rev. Stephen W. '61 

Porter, Rev. George J. '60 

James M. 

John '76 

Rev. Joseph W. '52 

Prof. Thos. C, D.D 

Hon. William A. '39 

Potter, Henry A. '77 

Powel, Samuel W. '78 

Pratt, Dr. Benjamin H. '57 

Queen, Rev. Sylvanus R. 

Raesly. Henry E. 
Radcliffe, McCIuney 
Ramsey, Rev. Jas. B., D.D. 

Rev. James N., Jr. 
Ray, Charles M. 
Raymond, Augustus 
Rawlins, James M. 
Read, Alexander R. 
Reese, James S. 
Reid, Alfred P. 
Reidy, Rev. Owen 
Reynolds, Stephen M. 
Rice, James H. 

Russell B. 
Richards, Albert A. 
Richey, Hon. Augustus G. 
Riegner, Wallace B. 
Riggs, Charles B. 
Riley, Samuel M. 
Risk, Dr. James B. 
Rittenhouse, James H. 
Roberts, Rev. James 

Richard A. 
Robison, George M. 
Roland, Horace 
Roller, Dr. William C 
Roney, William S. 
Ross, George R. 
Rumer, Rev. Henry 
Rush, William 
Russell, James C. 
Rutter, Rev. Lindley C. 



Salmon, Rev. Clark 

Rev. James M. 
Sandt, Charles A. 

George W. 

Dr. John 
Sassaman, Horace D. 
Sayre, Emilius K., Jr 
Schadt, Milton E. 
Schaeffer. Isaac P. 
Schultz, Irwin W. 
Schultze, Dr. William C. 
Schuyler, William H. 
Scollay, John 
Scott, Charles P. G. 

Harry O. 

James H. 

Rev. Robert 

Rev Walter Q. 
Scroggs, Joseph W. 
Sebring. Robert A. 
Seem, Herbert M. 
Seguin, Norcom L. 
Seip, Dr. Michael S. 
72|Serfass, Dr. John J, 
79 1 Joshua R. 



76 
77 
36 
77 
73 
60 
55 
73 
44 
64 
56 
77 
47 
76- 
75 
40 
77 
78 
74 
77 
72 

65 
75 
75 
70 

'70 

•78 

73 
'44 
'69 
'67 

'58 
'56 
'72 
•78 
'46 
'78 
'74 
'79 
73 

''I 
'73 
71 

•73 

•63 
'69 

75 

'69 

79 
79 
•63 
•76 
'73 



40 



314 



TJie Men of Lafayette. 



Sewell, Wyn R. 
Shadle, Samuel \V. 
Shaker, Edward 
Shanks, Rev. Walter M. 
Shaw, Harvey 
Sheafer, William L. 
Shearer, Rev. George L. 
Sheppard, John F. 
Sherrerd, Alexander H. 

John iM. 
Shipman, William C. 
Shimer, Joseph R, 

Porter W, 
Shoemaker, Austin D. 
ShuU, John E. 
Shumaker, John C. 
Silver, Albert P. 

Benjamin 

Benjamin H. 
Simonton, Rev. Ephraim 
Simpson, Rev. George W. 

Maxwell, G. 
Sitgreaves, Charles M. 
Slough, Dr Granville B. 
Smalley, Rev. John 
Smith, Dr. Abraham A. 

Edmund D. 

Ur. Harry A. 

Howard F. 

James Hume 

John Boyd 

Robert H. 

Sylvester C. 

William E. 

William P. 
Smithers. Hon. N. B. 
Snively, Joseph A, 
Snodgrass, James 

Hon. Robert 
Snowden, Robert P. 
Snyder, Clinton C. 

Henry 

Jefferson 
Somerville, Rev. Wm. C 
Spayd, Rev, Henry E. 
Speel, Alexander R. 
Sprecher, Samuel 
Sprenger, Lewis F. 
Springer, Rev. Thomas L. 

Dr. Willard 
Squier, Rev. John 
St. Clair, Dr. John M. 
Steans, William I. 
Stees, Henry A. 
Steel, William B. 
Stem, Benjamin F. 

Rev. Franklin D. 
Stephens, Prof. John W. 



Stephens, Dr. William M 
Sterrett, Alexander M. 
Stevens, Dr. Cyrus L. 

Rev. Joseph 
Stewart, Archibald T, 

Edward F. 

Frank W. 

Rev. Geo. D., D. D, 

Rev. John 

Dr. John W. 

Robert A. 

Russell C. 

Rev, William G. 
Stidham, Dr. Joseph P. 
Stiver, Rev. Samuel L. 
Stonecipher, Rev. John F. 
Stoneroad, Thomas L 
Stothoff, Henry 
Stout, Dr. George W. 
Struble, Henry M. 
Stuart, Dr. James H. 
Stull, Rev. William C. 
Sullivan, Rev. Andrew J. 

William B. 
Swartz, Aaron S. 
Sweeny, William S. 

Taylor, George 

Nathaniel 

William P. 
Temple, John C. 
Terbush, Rev. George W. 
Thaw, Clermont E. 
Thomas, Rev. Thomas 

Rev. Welling E. 
Thompson, Rev. John C. 
Todd, Rev. Francis M. 

James, Jr. 
Trippe, Andrew C. 
Trunkey, William S. G. 
Tully, Rev. Andrew 
Turner, Frank N. 

Uhler, Jacob P. 

Vanderbeck, Henry P. 
Van Dyke, Dr. George W. 
Van Horn, Richard M. 
Van Reed, George R. 
Van Sant, Edward N. 
Van Syckel, Rev. Phin. B. 
Vastine, Dr. Charles B. 

Hon. Joseph P. 
Vincent, Henry C. 
Voigt, Dr. Charles H. 
Voris, Clarence G. 



1845 
42 
76 
42 
79 
39 



Wagner, Dr. Charles R. 1842 

Walk, Dr. James W. '75 

Walker, Edwin T. '78 

James N. '65 

Lewis B. '75 

Wallace, Jesse S. '48 

Waller, Rev. David J., Jr. '70 

Levi E. '73 

Walters, Lewis R, '77 

William H. '79 

Ward, Artemus C. '77 

Warrender, Rev. Sam'l R. '74 

Watkins, John E. '71 

Watson, Hampton C. '59 

Weaver, Ethan A. '74 

Jacob W. '59 

Weeks, James R. '59 

Weidman, Barge C. '78 

Wells, Rev. Elijah B. '66 

George M. '77 

Weston, William P. '74 

Wharton, Henry S. '55 

Wiely, Rev. William, Jr. '71 

Wiennan, Victor P. '76 

Wikoff, Major Charles A. '55 

Wilhelm, Rev. John C. '57 

Williams, John R. '74 

Williamson, John G. '59 

John F. '78 

Rev. Joseph G., Jr. '73 

Wilson, Rev. James '47 

Winterick, Rev. Albert J. '59 

Wood, Rev. Charles '46 

Dr. Eugene H. '55 

Rev. James W. '37 

James Whitfield '66 

William A. '48 

Woodside.Rev.JohnS.,DD.'46 

Worrell, Henry M. '62 

Wright, Rev. Alexander '63 

Rev. James H. '70 

Robert J. '45 

Rev. W. O. '57 



Yardley, Mahlon '43 

Yegawa, Hidetake T. '79 

Young, George F. P. '78 

James Edgar '63 

Dr. Thomas O. '78 

Youngblood, Martin J. '77 

Youngman, Benjamin C. '6z 

John R. '70 

Prof. Robert B. '60 



Ziegler, Dr. James P. '70 

Zimmerman, Reuben A. '79 



INDEX 

TO THE FORMER STUDENTS. 



Abel, George il 

Jacob 

John 
Abernethy, Maxwell 

Robert H. 
Adam, Ishwari Das 
Adams, John 

John H. 

Theodore, Jr. 
Adamson, Charles B. 

William K. 
Addams, Samuel L. 
Agnew, Dr. Henry D. 

Joseph E. 
Aimies, Thomas K. 
Alden, William L. 
Alderson, William A. 
Alexander, George W. 

Samuel 

Rev. William, D.D. 

William H. 
Alison, Francis J. 
Allen, Edward D. 

John H., Jr. 
Aller, Henry A. 
AUis, Chester D. 
Allison, Charles A. 

Joseph J. 

William M. 
Anderson. Edward H. 
Andrews, Clinton M. 

Joseph H. 

Rev. J. B. 

Robert P. 
Annan, Andrew A. 

James C. 

John M. 
Anstadt, Rev. Peter 
Anstett, Cassius M. 
Apgar, William F. 
App, Hiram P. 

Isaac 

John M. 
Appich, Daniel H. 
Apple, Samuel A. 
Archer, James, Jr. 
Armijo, Charles E. 
Armstrong, Rev. Jno.,D.D 
Arndt, John 
Auchy, George 
Austin, James 
Avery, Stephen B. 

Babcock, William D. 
Bachman, A. P. 

Frank E. 

Horace S. 

John F. 
Badeau, Isaac N. 
Bailey, Morton S. 
Bainbridge, Walter F. 
Balrd, William M. 
Baker, Albert H. 

John T. 
Baldwin, Charles H. 



32 [Baldwin, John P. 
32 John R. 

32 iBallantine, George W. 
43 j Robert T. 

43) William A. 

46 Ballard, William W. 

32 Banks, Benjamin S. • 
37 Bannard, Horace B. 

80 Barber, Edwin A. 

77 James 

70 Barcroft, Dr. John W. 
35 Bare, James V. 
63 Barnes, Avon 

43 George G. 

35 James W. 

58 Rev. John 

78 Dr. William E 
62 William S. 

44 Barnet, Edward A. 
58, William H. 
6iiBarr, Rev. Andrew 
62 Thomas 

'78 Barrick, William C. 
77 Barron, Frank 

75 Baxter, Sharp 
72 Bayard, N. J. 

79 Beach, George W. 

33 Beaumont, Dr. George H. 
77 John A. 

76 William M. 

56 Beaver, David 

76 Bechdolt, Charles J. 
72 Becker, Rev. Charles 
'63 Christian L. 

61 Beddall, Nathan W. 

59 Beers, Robert W. 
'62 Dr. Solomon 

39 Beeson, Isaac W. 
72 Beisel. (See Bisel.) 

57 Beitel, Harry C. 
39 Bell, Park E. 

39 Robert 

36 BeIlis,W. 

60 Bemo, Rev. John D. 
57 Bender, George H. 

80 Benners, James M. 
76 William J. 

47 Bennett, James D. 
39 John R. 

82 Bergstresser, C. M. 

30 James C. 

46 Best, Dr. George N. 

Bethell, William 

Beymer, Hervey W. 
»i Biddle, Edward M. 
80 Biggs, John F. 
76|Biles, L. C. 

Bingham, John M. 

Birch, John M. 
'80 Birchby, Henry 
75 Bisel, William F. 

Bissell, John H. 

Bixler, Edmund L. 
Lewis 

Black, John H. 



Blackwell, James M. 
Blake, Kersey S. 
Blewitt, Edward F. 
Bliem, Milton J. 
Bloom, Erastus S. 
Bloome, Jacob 
Boal William M. 
Bolton, Charles W. 

Rev. James G. 
Bonham, J. Ellis 
Boone, Olin S. 
Borts, Isaac 
Bcssert, Henry M. 
Boughton, Thomas B. 
Boulton, Charles S. 
Bourne, Robert 
Bouton, Frederick M. 
Boyd, James 

James W. 

Dr. John 

Robert H. A. 

S. Edward, 
Boyer, Hon. Benjamin M. 

Israel S. 
Boyle, Rev. Frank 

John D., Jr. 
Bradfield, ("harles 
Biadshaw, Walter J. 
Brakely, Joseph 

Dr. P. F. 
Bransby, Rev. Charles. 
Braumuller, Otto 
Breckinridge, J. R. 
Breidinger, Jacob P. 
Brewer, Joseph 
Brewster, Enoch C. 
Briggs, Samuel R. 

Walter S. 
Brodhead, Charles D. 

Dr. Cicero 
Brooks, Wells S. 
Brown, A. D. 

Andrew S. 

Edwin 

H. L. 

Joseph P. 

Matthew 

Dr. Robert B. 

Thomas 

William J. 

William F. 
Brownlee, Rev. James 
Bruckart, Daniel W. 
Brugler, James K. 
Bubb, Henry C. 
Bucher, George C. 
Buckley, Herbert T. 

John H. 
Buckwalter, Henry B 
Budington, Thomas 
Bullock, Edward R. 

Charles E. 
Bunting, E. H. 
Burd, J. S. 
Burke, Frank 



•835 
75 
■79 
'82 

'74 

'34 
'75 
'80 
'72 
'33 
'77 
'71 
'45 



816 



The Men of Lafayette. 



Burke, Joseph R. i 

Burns, William 
Burrell, Jeremiah M. 
Burroughs, Rev. (jeo. W. 
Burt, James C. 

William 
Burton, Aaron T. 
Bush, George W. Jr. 
Bushnell, John C. 

William H. 
Bustillo, Manuel J. 
Butt, Zephaniah 
Butz, Samuel 

Caldwell, Robert F. 
Caleb, Gideon E. 
Calwell, George W. 
Cameron, B. H. B. 

Colin 
Camp, Williston 
Campbell, George H. 
Rev. J. R. 
Hon. James 
James 
John W. 
Rev. S. L. 
Canan, John A. 
Cann, James F. 

William H. 
Carey, Daniel J. 
Horace 
John J. 
William 
Carothers, James M. 
Carrell, Rev. Benjamin 
Edward S. 
Samuel 
Uriah 
Carskaddon, Percival 
Carson, Charles A. 
George 
William S. 
Carver, James Henry 
Cash, John 
Cathers, John M. 
Cattell, James M. 
Cavanaugh, Henry S. 
Chadwick, William P. 
Chain, Benjamin P. 
Chalfant, Frank H. 

William P. 
Chamberlain, E. 
Chambers, Benjamin, Jr. 
Horatio 
John 
Chandler, John 
Channell, Sevellon F. 
Chapm.in, (George 
Rev. N. F. 
William C. 
William Z. W. 
Chauvenet, Prof. William 
Chidsey, George W. 

Henry R. 
Christie, James A. 
Clark, Aaron J. 
Austin 
Charles 
John W. 
Robert W. 
Samuel S. 
Thomas C. 
W. D. 
Clawson, Hon. Isaiah D. 
Clemens, Harold 
Clendenin, John S. 



Cliffe, Robert W. 

Cline, Wm. C. 

Clymer, Wm. H., Jr. 

Coates, George W. P. 
34 Coble, Alex. C. 
33 Coleman, Wm. E. 
32 C^ollier, Frank P. 

Collins, Robert M. 
63 Rev. B. V 

Colt, Rev. Samuel F. 
77 Hon. Thomas A. 

32 Conant, Edward R. 
60 Conner, Davis 

Conrad, Rev. Louis L. 
76 Cook, Cyrus 
68 Harry 

39 James H. 

72 Jesse M. 
Dr. John S 
Dr. Joseph S. 
Silas C. 

62 Walter I. 

32 Cooley, Wilking B. 

81 Coombs, Edwin 

82 Cooper, John H. 
48 Milo 

73 Milton 

48 Corbett, Don Carlos 
48 Corbin, Frederick G. 

33 Julius T. 

44 Cortriuht, Wm. A. 
33 Coryell, Ingham 

33 Cottrell, Edward B. 

Cougic, Joseph B. 

Cowell, John W. 

6i Cox, Hewson 
'42 Wm. A., Jr. 

Wm'. S. 
82 Craig, Rev. Austin 

73 Harry P. 
36 Robert 

Craighead, Robert G. 
Crane, Jesse H. 
32 Cranz, Wm. S. 

78 Graver, David Z. 

80 Crawford, Charles M. 

79 George 
32 James A. 

81 ^ John M. 

81 Cresswell, John, Jr. 
81 Crcvcling, Augustus 
81 Crosby, Wm. D. 
72 Cruikshank, Dr. W. H. 

34 Culbcrtson, H. J. 

61 Cummins, Francis M. 

62 Rev. J. L. 

79 Cunningham, John H. 
44 Curtis, Wm. H. 

32 

43 Daddow, Harries L. 

43 Dalrymple, Lewis R, 
36 Daly, Patrick 

44 Daniel, Charles B. 
44 Daniels, Frank H. 
43 Dare, Francis 

74 Darr, Rufus 
81 Das, Ishwari 

80 Daubert, Amandus 
70 Davenport, C. W. 
77 Davidson, Delozier 
41 Isaac 

81 James T. 
34 W. 

33 1 W. A. 

77 Davies, John R. 
'38 Davis, Calvin 



1834 

'73 



Dayis, Charlton K. 
Davis, Edward 
F2dward 
Ephraim B. 
John L. 
WiPiam L. 
Day, Frank N. 
James F. 
Deats, Wm. 
Defrees, Thomas M. 
Delatour, John J. 
Delicker, Frederick 
Demorest, E. O. 
Depue, Edward A. 
Deringer, Bronaugh M. 

C. M. 
Deshler, James B. 
Dettre, Ambrose T. 
Devor, Thomas J. 1*. 
Dewing, Arch. A. 
Dewitt, Washington F. 
Dickenshied, Dr. Chas. 

Dr. Chas. H. 
Dickey, E. V. 

Hervey S. 
Dickinson, Lester C. 
Mahlon D. 
T. Stokes 
Dickson, Chas. W. 
James P. 
Dr. Wm. J. 
Diefendcrfcr, Thomas F. 
Diller, Amos 
Dillon, Rev. Edward 
Dilts, Ferdinand V. 
Dilworth, Charles R. 

Lawrence 
Dodder, E. L. 

George W. 
Donaldson, Robert, Jr. 

William G. 
Doremus, Frank 
Dorrance, James M. 
Dorris, William W. 
Doty, Ezra C. 
James C. 
Latimer B. 
Doud, Herbert A. 
Downcs, H. E. 
Downey, Wm. B. 
Drake, Clarence L. 
Frank 
Thomas 
Drinkhouse. John C. 
DuBois, Henry M. 
Duggan, John S. 
Dull, Casper 
Dumont, Ira 
Dungan, John J. 
Dunham, Adam C. 
Dunlap, John A. 
Dunn, Samuel W. 
Durham, Benjamin F. 
Dusenberry, Benjamin I 
Constantine 
H. M. 
Lewis M. 



1876 
'33 



Eadie, George F. 

Eakins, Rev. David W. 

Earle, Edward M. 

Easton, Sylvanus H. 

Eaton, John R 
34iEberle, Wm. H. 
81 Eby, Maurice C. 
eglEckert, Isaac 



Index, 



317 



Kckert, Isaac G. 1879 


Fdelman, James S. 


69 


Edgar, James C 


82 


Edgeiton, Alfred P. 


69 


Edinger, Daniel S. 


66 


Eilenbergcr, Isaac S. 


60 


Elder. George B. 


38 


H.S. 


32 


Eldridge, Henry H. 


80 


Elliott, Addison S. 


74 


Ellis, Charles C. 


56 


Ellsworth, John S. 


81 


Ely, John S. 


7S 


Emanuel, Wm. H, 


81 


Emery, James G. 


62 


Epstein, Adolphus H. 


56 


Erskine, David T. 


3.S 


Estlin, Rev. Josiih L. 


80 


Evans, C. 


34 


Chas. C. 


81 


Horace J. 


79 


JohnC. 


79 


Joseph H 


81 
34 


Wm.S. 


70 


Everett, Wm. S. 


57 


Ewing, Hon. John K. 


37 


John K., Jr. 
Eyer, Henry A. 


78 


36 


Fackenthall, Dr. Howard 


75 


Benjamin F., Jr. 


78 


William 


79 


Falls, Wallace H. 


78 


Farquhar, John W. 


80 


Fell, Charles H. 


79 


John A. 


75 


Ferguson, Jolin 


63 


Thomas C. 


77 


Fetter, W. R. 


39 


Fick, Levi J. 


80 


Field, Edmund H 


63 


E.lwin P. 


43 


Dr. Kurman 


40 


Fields, Josiah 


40 


Fillebrown, John P. 


80 


Findley, James W. 


75 


Capt. Joseph R. 


57 


Fine, Luther M. 


76 


Finletter, Hon. Thomas K. 


38 


Finley, Charles B. 


65 


Finney, Rev. E. D. 


46 


Rev. H. G. 


55 


Fisher, Dr. Wm. F. 


59 


Fiske, Alexander P. 


46 


Horace E. 


80 


Flad, John W. 


79 


Kleisher, Daniel 


77 


Fleming. Samuel W. 


75 


Flemming, Charles 


39 


John G. 


45 


Flinn, Lewis \V. 


80 


Forbes, Harry R. 


80 


Foresman, Robert 


79 


Forman, W. R. 


34 


Forsman. J. M. 


33 


Fowler, Dr. H. O. 


35 


Col. Samuel 


34 


Fox, James 


39 


Frace, John 


73 


Francis, Hon. Wm. M. 


33 


Frankenfield, H. C. 


81 


Freeh, Theodore W. 


72 


Freeman, ?^dw rd C. 


79 


Dr. George W. 


45 


French, James 


32 



Fries, Rev. Henry C. 
Frisbie. Frederick V. 
Frost, Harry (;. 
Fulmer, Chester 

Dr. I'hilip Y 
Fuller, Frank M. 
Fullerton, Stewart 
Fulton, Rev. Robert H. 
Futhey, Robert A. 

Gallaher, John M. 
Galloway, Hon. James 
Gamble, Rev. Samuel L. 
Gantz, Jacob S. 
Garrett, Hon. John W 
Gaston, Rev. Samuel 
Gay, Harry S. 
Geary, John W. 
Geisenberger, Leoncl 
Gemmill, Wm. B. 
Cjerberich, Philip .A. 
Gibbs, Rev. John C. 
Gibons, Charles J. 

George G. 

Rupp F. 
Gibson, Muscoe M. 
Gilfdlan, James B. 
Gilmore, John 
Givin, Robert W. 
Glanz, Edwin S. 
Glase, John O. 
Glover, Samuel P. 
Godoivn, John M. 
Goepp, Hon. Charles 

Maximilian 
Goines, Bazil N. 
Goldsmith, Aaron 
Good, Wm. 
Goodell, John H. 
Goodhart, George B. 
Gordon, G. F. 
Gorrell, W. G. 
Gossler, Philip 
Gould, Herbert T. 
Gradwohl, Adam 
Graef. J. 

Graham, John D. 
Grandin, Dr. John F. 
(jrant, Fred H. 
Gray, Dr. Henry M. 

Dr. Lcwers ].). 
Gregg, Dudley W. 
Gregory, James A. 
Green, Augustus 

Edward D. 

Edward H 

I'Vederick 

Col. Henry H. 

John 

Joseph B. 

Samuel S. 

William S. 
Greenleaf, A. H. 
Greer, ('olbert H. 
Grier, Rev. M. B. 

Dr. Samuel L. 

Rev. Smith F. 
Griffin, Clarence E. 
Griffis, Dr. Henry L. 
Griffith, Charles C. 

Evan F. 
Groesbeck, John N. 
Groff, Jacob B. 
Grosh, Alexander B 
Grossman, John H. 
Grovcr, Rev. Alfred E. 



1832 

'82 
'74 
'76 
■48 
'77 
'78 
'74 
'55 

'82 
35 
58 
72 
34 
34 
82 
73 
81 
73 
7' 
43 
45 
48 
46 



Grunder, Henry W. 

Gniver, Dr. Samuel J. 

Guild, Wm. B., Jr. 

Guiley, Dr. A. H. R. 

Guirey, John W. 

Gwinner, Frederick R. 
Henry W. 
John |-, 
William H. 

Hackelt, Samuel H. 

William, Jr. 
Hagaman. K. V. 
Hagernian, Herbert 
Hagerty, Andrew N. 
Hale, Ijenjamin 1'. 

John 

Reuben C. 
Hall, Rev. Lsaac 

William S. 

William E. 
Halsey, Joseph G. 
Ham, John M. 
Hamcl; (ieorge, Jr. 
Hamill, John L. 
! Dr. Robert H. 

Rev. Samuel M. 
Hamilton, Alexander 

Dr. Hugh 

Naudain 

Robert H. 
Hand, James A. 
Handy, Wm. W. 
Hankinson, C. W. 
Hannen, Aaron K. 
Hanson, L. F. 
Harkness, Prof. Wm. 
Harlan, Wallace S. 
Harleman, George M. 
Harris, Benjamin F. 
39 H.B. 

32 Dr. Isaac 

36 Hon. James M. 

79 Pearson 
74 Powhatan 
32 Wm. S. 

Harrison, Joseph H. 
46 Ward B. 

Hart, Dr. Amos M. 
38 Dr. Edgar 

34 Dr. Israel 

74 John S. 

72 Joseph R. 

34 Joseph W. 

45 Hartranft, Samuel S. 
56 Harvey, Dr. Chas. W. 

80 (jeorge S. O. 
36 Ha«brouck, Robert M. 

35 Hathorn, F'ergus A. 
35 Hayes, John M. 
42 Dr. Robert F. 

Dr. Thomas R. 
41 Wm. J. 

82 Haymakei , Edward M. 
35 Hays, Andrew T. 
35 Hazard, John C. 
35 Hazen, Hon. A. D. 
Heath, Frederick 

76 Heberling, Edgar A. 

77 Heberlon, Rev Edward 
32 Hecht, Dr. John P. 
71 Heckman, Frank B. 

46 W. C. 
69 Heinen, M. E. 

81 "' " 
72 



70 

'45 
■76 

■36 
"32 
'38 
'44 
'45 

■58 
■63 
'42 
'80 
'81 
'80 
'32 
'78 
■32 
'33 



Heiney, John J. 
Heller, Jacob B. 



The Men of Lafayette. 



Heller, Samuel Y. 18681 


Hummel, Edward W. 


18S2 


[Cinsey, Wm. P. 18; 


Henderson, iJr. Joseph ' 


34 


Valentine 


'82 


Kintzing, Pearcc 'i 


Henry, George S. ' 


71 


Humphrey, David W. 


'81 


Kirkpatrick, James D. 'a 


Henry, Joseph V. 


80 


Hunt, David 


'77 


Hon.Wm. S. 't 


Hepburn, John F\ ' 


43 


John C. 


'47 


Kitchen, John B. '; 


Lawrence C. ' 


43 


John F. 


'Zi 


Kline, Chas. R. '5 


Robert H. 


71 


William S. 


'42 


Edwin 'i 


Samuel B. 


74 


Hunsicker, Joseph W. 


'45 


Franklin J. '(. 


Wm. M. 


76 


Hunter, John, Jr. 


'39 


Knabb, Jacob ': 


Herbert, Edward S. ' 


«2 


Rev. William 


'39 


Knapp, Dr. Chas. P. 


Heron, James J. ' 


55 


Hutchison, S. (». 


'81 


Knight, Lvman S. '( 


Herpich, Charles ' 


81 


Hyatt, Randolph C. 


'78 


Koch, Henry R. 


Herr, Daniel ' 


79 


Hyndman, Mark L. 


'82 


Wm. "t 


Herron, Rev. John ' 


74 






Koons, John ' i 


John, Jr. 


78 


Ihrie, Gen. Geo. P. 


'42 


Kraber, Henry R. ' 


Herschell, Rev. Victor 


47 


Dr. R. Ross 


'43 


Kratz, Cornelius T. 


Hess, Harlem P. ' 


71 


Illick, Wm. M. 


'45 




Owen W. 


32 


Innes, F.dward 


'44 


LaBarre, Alexander C. 'i 


Robert J. 


80 


Joseph 


'44 


Lachenour, Dr. Henry D. ' 


Heylman, Daniel G. 


74 


Irving, Alfred F. 


■74 


Laird, Clarence R. 'i 


Hibler, Wm. N. G. 


59 


Irwin, David A. 


'62 


Lambert, Frank 


Hickey, Edward ' 


74 


Dudley M. 


'81 


iVlarcus B. 


Hickman, Louis M. ' 


47 


George G. 


•80 


Lanning, John 


Hilbish, Philip 


36 






Lantz, Manning F. '( 


Hileman, Charles M. 


78 


Jackson, George M . 


'46 


Larnard, Theodore S. 


Hill, Daniel P. 


35 


Robert 


'75 


Lathrop, George R. 


Robert D. 


42 


Stroud H. 


'73 


Latta, Dr. Samuel W. 


William 


36 


Janeway, John J. 


'68 


Laubach, Alfred P. 


HiUer, Jacob A. 


82 


Janvier, John 


'34 


Laughlin, Samuel ' 


Hilton, Dr. John R. 


60 


John W. 


'41 


Laurie, Andrew B. 


Hinchman, John C. 


41 


Rev. Levi, D.D. 


'32 


Laverty, Levi F. 


Joseph A. 


41 


Philip H. 


'32 


Lawall, Walter S. ; 


Hixson, Joseph R. 


58 


Jarecki, Oscar 


'79 


Lawson, James S. 


Theodore 


38 


Jenkins, Wm. 


;36 


Layton, Sidney M. 


Hoagland, James E. 


69 


Jenks, Walter B. 


'77 


Leaman, Dr. Brainerd ' 


Hoff, Aaron 


32 


John, Harry 


'80 


Rosh 


Hoffediiz, Rev. T. C. L. 


35 


Johns, Thomas G. 


•78 


Lee, Alexander 


Hofford, Rev. M. L. 


45 


Johnson, Dr Harry T. 


'76 


Dr. Chas, E. 


Hogg, James 15. 


81 


John W. 


[42 


Lehman, Robert B. 


William J. 
Hohl, Frank W. 


71 


Dr. Mayhew 


'44 


Leirly, Clarence F. 


80 


Hon. I'hilip 


'42 


Lerch, Charles H. 


Holmes, Clayton W. 


69 


Jolly, (jeorge L. 


'82 


Leue, H. W. A. ; 


Holt, David B. 


67 


Jones, (ieorge M. 


'81 


Lewers, Edward 


George 


74 


Jacob M. 


[78 


Lewis, Addison S. 


Lester 


32 


Josiah 


'34 


Elisha 


Hollyock, David 


36 


Robert I. 


'61 


Rev. J.ames R. 


Hommann, Charles C. 


73 


Simon 


'34 


Samuel B. 


Hooper, James 


33 


W. 


'34 


Lichty, Clarence V. 


Robert H. 


81 


Jordan, James T. 


'56 


Lind, Robert F. 


Hoopes, Dr. Paschall J. 


44 


Junkin Hon. Benjamin F. 


'37 


Little, J. A. 


Hoover, Robert H. 


81 


George 


'38 


Littlehales, Wm. L. 


Hopkins, Robert C. 
Horn, George 


'68 
'40 


Dr. James G. 
Dr. John M. 


'34 


Lloyd, John L. 

Rev. John T. 


Solon 


'32 


Rev. Wm. F., D.D 


'44 


Logan, John H. ' 


Horner, Dr. Edward 


'46 


Juvenal, Jacob B. 


'71 


Wm. C. 


Horton, Ambrose 


'32 


Theodore C. 


'71 


Long, Albert M, 


Hosie, John H. 


•76 






Rev. Edwin W. 


Housel, Edwin 


'^'^ 


Kceler, Asa S. 


'80 


Rev. E. M. 


Wm. A. 


'65 


Keely, Olivers. 


'82 


Harry W. ; 


Houseman, Hampton 


'74 


Keil, Jacob 


'38 


Henry 
Dr. Hiram 


Howard, Rev.Wm.D.,D.D. 


'32 


Keller, John F. 


'76 


Howell, Dr. A. A. 


'35 


Kelly, Fred. W. 


'74 


James W. " 


George 


'80 


Kelsey, Rev. Joel S. 


■68 


James V. 
Leslie M. 


H. Budd 


■64 


Kendall, Quincy E. C. 


'82 


Henry B. 


'81 


Kcndig, Samuel H. 


;46 


Wm. C. 


Rev. H. S. 


'34 


Kennetly, Alfred 


'47 


Wm. s. ; 


John S. 


'35 


Edward T. 


'60 


Longnecker, Gen. H. C. 


Lewis 


72 


Henry M. 


'S7 


Lose, Charles 


Hower, J. S. 

Hoyt, Hon. Henry M. 


'33 


Dr. Irwin L. 


'38 


Lott, Dr. John H. 


;46 


Richard A. 


'78 


Lounsberry, Dr. Seth S- ' 


John D. 


40 


Thomas B. 


'38 


Loveland, George 


Huffman, Torrance 


■78 


W.nfieldS. 


'70 


Lovell, David H. 


Huggins, Everett N. 


\^(> 


Kenney, Edward L. 


'81 


Lowe, Grovcr S. ' 


Hulick, Wm. H. 


Ti 


Kepple, James R. 


'76 


Lowrie, Jonathan R. 


Hull, Dr. Thomas R. 


35 


Kcssler, Arthur C. 


'42 


Rev. Newell S. 


Hulshizer, Andrew 


'42 


Samuel R. 


'47 


Lowry, Rev. Andrew M. ' 



Index, 



319 



Ludlngton, Charles K. 
T.ummis, Edward F. 
Lupler, Alexander M. 
I, yon, Edward W, 
I'' rank V. 

McArthiir, Frank H. 
McAtce, Rev. W. A. 
McBride, Dr. S. K. 
McCamnion, David C 

Wm. J. 
McCarrell, Kcv. J. J. 
McCarter, Wm. J. 
McCarty, James M. 

Wm. M. 
McCartney, H. M. 

Thomas 
McCauley, Albert C. 

Charles 
McClellan, Joseph F. 

Robert M. 
McClelland, Robert W. 
McClure, David, Jr. 
McCollum, Henry 
McConaughy, J. E, 

Dr. Robert 
McConkey, James H. 
McConnell, Albert W. 
McCormick, George K. 

J. C. or J. W. 

Thomas H. 
McCown, Frank C. 
McCoy, Dr. Isaiah R. 
McCracken, Nathan M. 
McCulloch, Edward D. 

Samuel J. 
McDonogh, Washington 
McDougal, Walter K 
McDowell, Albert 

Robert M. 
McFarland, George 

John 

Nai Chu 
McFarlane, Chas. W. 

Wm. R. 
McGee, Wm. O. 
McGill, John 
McGowan, John G. 
Mcllhany, Wm. H. 
Mcllvaine, Rev. J. H. 
Mclntire, John R. 
Mcintosh, Herbert 
McKee, Thomas S> 
McKeen, Wm. M. 
McKelway, John 
McKibbin, John 
McKnight, Wm. E. 
McLaine, Abram 
McLean, Daniel 

Dr. Hugh D. 

James 

Hon. Samuel 
McLellan, Joseph T. 
McLelland, Joseph 
McLeod, David A, 

Theodorus 
McMullin, John R. 
McMurray, Rev. Joseph 
McMurtrie, Abram 

(Jeorge K. 
McNair, Rev. Wm. W. 
McNulty, Joseph M. 
McPhail, Henry P. 
McPherson, Isaiah 
McSparrcn, Chas. A. 
McWilliams, Curtis Q. 



Macalester, Chas., Jr. iS 


77 


Monfatt, Prof. Thomas C. 1875 


MacDonald, Robert 


79 


Monaghan, James 


34 


Magill, Samuel E. 


8i 


Jonathan J. 


34 


Wm. J. 


8i 


Monlanye, J. D. 


47 


Magraw, W. F. M. 


36 


Montluc, Henry 


42 


Henry S. 


76 


Moody, N. P. 


70 


MahafTy, James T. 


45 


Moon, Wm. W. 


60 


Mahon, Robert W. 


73 


Moore, David W. 


74 


Mallery, Chas. li. 


34 


Col. Dcwitt C. 


42 


Edward G. 


34 


Hugh 


37 


Mann^ Dr. Chas. H. 


75 


Isaiah 


44 


John E. 


76 


John 


44 


Joseph R. 


80 


Joseph 
Nathaniel G. 


43 


March, Francis A. Jr. 


81 


73 


Markle, Alvan 


82 


Dr. Wm. J. 


44 


John 


80 


Morford, Chas. A. 


35 


Markley, Albert W. 


37 


Morgan, Thomas H. 


32 


Marlatt, Rev. A. G. 


47 


Wm. 


73 


Marplc, Abel 


44 


Wm. Gad 


71 


Henry M. 


82 


Morrison, Chas. H. 


39 


Marr, Dr. Wm. H. 


36 


Johns. 


81 


Marriner, Rev. (jeo. K. 


44 


John T. 


80 


Marsh, Dr. E. W. 


58 


Morrow, Dr. Francis G. 


72 


Marstin, Casper F. 


y- 


Mordough, Dr, Edward F. 


77 


Martin, Andrew F. 


81 


Moxley, Thomas S. 


32 


Pr. Jacob '1'. 


79 


Moser, Osiah H. 


33 


Norton J. 


80 


Muhlenberg, Nicholas H. 


82 


Wesley 


81 


Mumper, John W. 


74 


Marvin, Rev, F. R. 


69 


Murphey, Samuel N. 


47 


Mason, Robert J. 


78 


Musselnian, D. G. E. 


70 


Mateer, Wm. R. 


58 


ICdwin C. 


72 


Maxey, David W. 


41 


Musser, Frank R. 


|82 


Maxwell, Henry U. 


82 


Mutchler, Henry M. 


'44 


James H. 


81 


Myers, Wm. B. 


'82 


John D. 


71 






William 


38 


Nai Chu 


'74 


Maybin, John 


39 


Nassau, Rev. R. H. 


'49 


May field, Clifton 


77 


Neel, John Jack 


'81 


Mayhew, H, 


34 


Ncfir, AldusJ. 


'46 


Maynard, James H. 


67 


Nelson, Thomas M. 


'70 


Meigs, Edward K. 


70 


Nesbit. (See Nisbet.) 




Herman 


77 


Nevin, Dr. Joseph P. 


74 


Meily, James 


75 


Newman, Joseph 
Rush 


32 


Mein, John H. 


59 


32 


Mecher. Rev. Oliver H. 


76 


Newton, Dr. Chas. 


78 


Melick, Mathias 


39 


Fred. G. 


77 


Melvin, Charles S. 


82 


Nicholas, Aaron W. 


78 


Mendenhall.Rev. H.G. 


74 


Nickum, Jacob 


45 


Mercer, Oliver P. 


81 


Nisbet, Robert 


32 


Merrill, George 


46 


Nivin, Edwin M. 


32 


Messinger, Levin II. 


67 


Noble, John S. 


74 


Metzger, Larue 


35 


Joseph T. 


72 


Michler, A. Keller 


46 


Noll, Charles C. 


43 


Clarence 


44 


Henry T. 
North, Rev. George W. 


45 


Gen. Nathaniel 


41 


82 


Richard M. 


81 


Northrop, Howard 


77 


Micke, Edward P. 


79 


Northrup, Charles 


72 


Mifflin, Wm. P. 


76 


Norwood, Austin C. 


76 


Miller, Addison B. 


54 


Notson, Charles B. 


6S 


Alexander H. 


80 


Nott, Abncr H. 


32 


Edwin 


39 


Nute, JohnW. 


82 


Elwood A. 


79 






Guy on 


78 


Oakford, Col. Richard A. ' 


33 


Rev. John C. 


45 


Oberholtzer, George W. 


70 


John 


35 


Ogden, Joseph W. 


72 


Otho N. 


80 


Oliphant, John 


37 


Simon 


37 


Olyphant, Wm. V. 


80 


W. A. 


75 


Opdycke, Dr. Washington 


50 


Millholland, Henry 


78 


Orr, Nathaniel M. 


74 


MiUigan, Chas.H. 


74 


Osborn, Rev. Robert 


32 


MiUikan, Allen C. 


7' 


Osmond, Rev. Samuel M. 


47 


Louis H. 


79 


Osterhout, George E. 


81 


Mills, Edward, Jr. 


77 


William 


81 


Miner, Joseph W. 


45 


Ott, Dr. Isaac 


67 


Mitchell, G. Alfred 


47 


Otto, Henry E. 
Overfield, Wm. 


75 


Thomas R. F. A. 


32 


47 



320 



The Men of Lafayette. 



Overton, Major Giles B. i 

John 
Owen, Landing 

Pardee, Barton 
Parish, David G. 
Park, Rev. Cscar 
Parker. Robert M. 
Robert P. 
Wm. H. 
Parvin, Dr. Iheophilus 
Patterson, David I. 
James L. 
John D. 
Joseph 
Rubers P. 
Wn,. H. 
Patton, John C. 

Wm. F. 
Paxton, Harry 
Pearson, Rev. George 

Rev. James 
Perkins, John D. 

Sidney 
Pershing, Cyrus S. 
Perry, Dr. Van Lear 
Petrie, Dr. Robert M. 
Petrikin, Hon. Robert B. 

Wm. A. 
Petway, Dr. Robert 
Phelps, Rev. Joshua, D.D. 

Salmon A. 
Philippe, Charles 
Phillips, Alfred 
Daniel E. 
John 
Pfouts, John R. 
Pickels, Harry C. 
Pierce, Jacob K. 
Piollet, Victor E. 
Plack, Wm. L. 
Plank, Samuel C. 
Plough, Hiram J. 
Plumer, Arnold G. 
Plummer, Charles H. 
Plunkett, Edward L. 
Pollock. James, Jr. 

Thomas C. 
Pomerov, Ralph 
Samuel C. 
Pomp, Thomas R. 
Porter, Gen. Andrew 
Dr. Andrew 
Col. A. Parker 
George P. 
Dr. George W. 
Henry W. 
Joseph F. S. 
Potter, John 

Wm. P. 
Pottinger, Charles B. 
Potts, Stacy G., Jr. 
Pratt, Dr. Leonard 
Price, Albert 

Dr. Nathan L. 
Pursell, Wm. W. 
Pusey, Frank S. 

Quin, Emmett 
Isaac 
Robert 

Race, Dr. Henry 
Raesly, George 
Rader, Charles \. 
Lewis J. 



39 Radford, George R. ] 

39jKambo, Alva E. 

35] Ramsey, Hon. Alexander 

Charles 

Edmund 

Dr. James 
Randall, Alexander B. 
Randolph, Hon. B. F. 
Rankin, Dr. Wm. M. 
Raub, Dr. John A. 
Raymond, Shepard K. 
Rea, Alexander W. 

George M. 
Reading, Dr. Alfred 

John G. 
Reagle, Milo P. 
Reed, BrittainM. 

D.-..niel, Jr. 

David W. 

Frank B. 

Joseph P. 

William B. 

Rev. Wm. B. 

William H. 
Reese, Ambrose D. 

Edward C. M. 

James I\L 
Reeves, John H. 
Reid. Samuel S. 
Reiff, Nathan O. 
Reiley, Dr. James 

Rey. John A. 

Wm. D. 
Reimer, Heiman F. W. 
Remann, Frederick, Jr. 
Rex, Dr. Oliyer P. 
Reynolds, George B. 

George W. 

Henry W. 

John B. 
Rhodes, Rev- Jacob 
Ribble, Dr. Wm. B. 
Rice, Frank S. 

Rev. Harry V. 

Joseph T. 
Rich, Sylvester N. 
Richard, Elijah 
Richards, Irenus 

Dr John C. 
Richey, Dr. Robert T. 
Riddell, Charles S. 
Riddle, Rev. Wm. 
Ridgway, Cliarles 
Riegle, Thomas M. 
Righter, Dr. John W. 
Riley, J. 
Risk, Dr. Clarence H. 

Dr. Wm. H. 
Risler, Wm. T. 
Roberts, Alexander H. 

James W. 
Robertson, Rev. James F. 
Robeson, Hon. James M. 
Robison, James B. 
RockhiU, G. W. 
Rockwell, Abner L. 
Rodenbough, Kev. H.S. 

Gen. T. F. 
Rodriguez, Manuel E. 
Rogers, David O. 

James 
Roland, Wm. S. 
Roller, Blair W. 
80 Ronan, George K, 
67 Root, John N. 
78 Ross, J. Elliott 



I Ross, Robert C. 
Wm. R. 
Rosston, Daniel R. 
Rowland, Dr. Francis F. 

Samuel C. 
Roy, Tadaypaly V. 
78 Royer, Dr. Israel W. 
32lRuby, Wm. N. 

46 Rue. Rev. J. E. 
58 Rupp, Thomas J. 

47 Russell, Alexander M 
42 James H. 

76 R. 

41 Rev. Watson 

80 Ruth, Peter 

77 Ryerson, Dr. Thomas 
76 

82 Saeger, R 
35 Sage, Frederick 
74 Henry A., Jr. 

72 Salkcld, Andrew D. 
72 Thomas F. 

72 Sanborn, Andrew E. 

33 Sanders, J. T. 

80 Sandt, Clinton W. 

45 George F. 

78 Dr. Samuel 

8r Santee, Rev. Joseph W. 

80 Sausser, Charles W. 

81 Saviiz, Charles J. 

46 Sayre, David E. 
36J Thomas D. 

73 Schall, Hon. George W. 
64 Schick, James R. 

72 Schenck, Aleck V. 
631 David 

74 Schneider, William 
38 Schobert, Levi 

75 Scholl, Joseph S. 

74 Schreiner, Joseph H. 

32 Schuliz, John H. 

47 Louis G. 

70 Schuyler, William W. 

77 Schwartz, Jacob W. 

82 Scofield, Arch T 

34 Scott, Edwin L. 
81 George E. 

81 Harry W. 

64 Rev. John M. 

33 Nicholas I. 

75 Scudder, Alexander M. 

34 Joseph T. 
40 Uriel T. 

74 Sedgwick, Frank B. 

34 Seibert, William A. 
38 Seip, Albert N. 

70 Dr. Herbert F. 

64 _ William H. 
36 Seitz, Charles 

78 Frederick 

82 Henry W. 

75 Selfridge, Gen James L. 

35 Seiner, Rev. Wilson 
59 Seltzer, Monroe P. 

34 Semple, Archibald N. 

73 Jofin 

35 Dr. Joseph E. 
50 William O. 
40 Serfass, Orrin 

82 Sergeant, Charles 
35 George T. 

79 Serrill, T. S. 
77|Sexton, N. K. 
82!Shafer, Thomas H. 
82; Shaker, Michael J. 
75iSharp, Robert W. 



Index. 



321 



Sharpe, Dr. William 
Shattuck, Alfred J. 
Shaw, Charles B. 

Edward R. 

Minard 
Sheffield, George V. 
Sheirer, Alfred 
Sherrer, Henry W. 
Sherrerd, Dr. John B. 

Hon. Samuel 
Sherron, Dr. Clifford M. 
Sherwood, J. Marshall 
Shick, Jame.s R. 
Shields, John G. 
Shipman, Jehiel G. 
Shiland, James L. 
Shimer, S. 

Shobert. (See Schobert. 
Shoemaker, Elijah M. 

Nathan D. 

Samuel M. 
Shouse, Henry W. 
ShuU, Horatio G. 

Samuel E. 
Shultz, John H. 
Siegfried, John M. 
Sill, J. R. 
Silver, George E, 

Wm. F. 
Simmons, John T. 

Joseph 
Simonton, John W. 
Simpson, Thomas R. 
Sitgreaves, Edwin 

Samuel 
Skeen, John T. 
Skiles, Francis H. 
Skillman, C. H. 
Skinner, AlbertH. 

Hon. Wm, E. 
Slack, Horatio M. 
Sloan, Col. Thomas 
Slough, Dr. Evan 
Smith, Dr. Abram C. 

Dr. Abram C. 

Augustus T. 

Clayton K. 

Dean F. 

Rev. E. C. 

Harry A. 

Henry D. 

Hervey W. 

Rev. Joseph W. 

Robert G. 

Samuel 

Samuel 

Rev. Wm. H. 

Wm. W. 

Zant McD. 
Snow, George W. 
Snyder, Arthur 

Charles 
Soxman, Samuel A. 
Speakman, Charles H. 
Spencer, Wm. 
Sponsler, Edward R. 
Sproull, Rev. Alexander 
Stahley, Dr. George D. 
Stanley, Matthew A. 
Stebbins, T. C. 
Steckel, Harry C. 
Steel, Robert M. B. 
Stem, Edwin D. 

Willie N. 
Stengelin, John, Jr. 
Sterling, W. C. 



1847 

35 ' 
78 

77 
78 
72 
62 
32 
32 
77 
48 
76 
76 
38 
7.9 



Stevens, John P. 1882 


Tull, Montrose G. 1880 


Stevens, Oliver W. 


32 


Tully, Abraham C. 


65 


Stevenson, A. J. 


4' 


Rev. David 


43 


Stewart, Charles 


44 


Rev. William K. 


71 


Clement 


63 


Turner, Alfred E. 


75 


David W, 


56 


Marcus C. 


78 


George R. 


74 


Tustin, Rev. J. P. 


32 


George W. 


74 


Tyler, Rev. Benjamin 


32 


Dr. Isaac C. 


46 


Hon. John A. 


33 


Jacob A. 


44 






Jacob S. 


73 


Umsted, Frank G. 


47 


James W. 


67 


Urnston, D. B. 


38 


John R. 


45 






William J., Jr. 


73 


Vail, Daniel H. 


38 


jtier, Joseph T. 


80 


Lewis D. 


48 


Stiger, David M. 


34 


Van Arsdale, John K. 


64 


D. Traphagen 


35 


Vanatta, Rev. Peter R. 


38 


Jacob M. 


38 


Van Cleef, James H. 


64 


Stillwell, Charles 


71 


Van Doren, William P. C. 


64 


Dr. Thomas 


35 


Van Horn, Joseph A, 


38 


Stine, Isaac J. 


55 


Van Meter, John 


78 


Stirling, Douglass 


55 


Van Name, J. 


54 


Stocker, R. M. 


73 


Van Reed, Hon. Henry 


37 


Stotzer, Frank J. 


80 


Jacob 


36 


Stover, Charles B. 


81 


Van Sant, Gabriel 


39 


Strader, J. Barker 


46 


Simpson T. 


46 


John J. 


45 


Van Saun, George B. 


46 


Strauss, Benjamin 


79 


Van Syckel, Chester B. 


58 


Streeper, Levi 


38 


Victor, Winthrop F. 


82 


Strode, H. M. 


36 


Vincent, John H. 


46 


Struthers, James R. 


32 






Stuart, Wm. 


38 






Stuckert, John C. 


75 


Wade, Francis E. 


78 


Sturgeon, Samuel 


32 


Wagner, George W. 


47 


Rev. Wm C. 


35 


Wagener, David D. 


80 


Sullivan, James J. 


74 


Walke, Francis E. 


83 


John M. 


56 


Walker, Gen. Duncan S. 


62 


Supplee, Israel H. 


78 


John C. 


79 


Sutton, John A. 


74 


Robert L. 


7' 


John W., Jr. 


74 


Hon. Thomas H. 


37 


Swan, Charles H. 


82 


Wallace, Rev. Robert M. 


44 


Swift, George 


49 


Walter, Charles F. 


81 


Rev. Henry 
Swing, George W. 


69 


Robley D. 


82 


56 


William C. 


47 


Symington, Wm. N. 


59 


Ward, Edward O. 


81 






Wardin, Joseph H. 


59 


Takasu, Kuzuma 


78 


Warner, Albert 


79 


Talmage, Charles H. 


82 


Moses C. 


42 


Tate, Humphrey D. 


69 


Washabaugh, Frank J. 


70 


Taylor, John B. 


76 


Watkins, Frank B. 


80 


William A. 


32 


Watson, Dr. William 


59 


Teel, Chester L. 


61 


Watts. Rev. Robert, D.D. 


48 


Tegima, Sei Ychi 


75 


Weaver, Alexander B. 


78 


Tenbrook, Dr. John 


32 


Webber, Harry W. 


78 


Terhune, John 


34 


Weber, Devault 


37 


Thomas, Edwin 


77 


Rev. George, Jr. 


37 


Gabriel D. 


82 


Webster, Charles R. 


37 


Thompson, George A. 


74 


Weeks, Horace F. 


76 


Joseph M. 


40 


Weiss, Robert F. 


75 


William H. 


73 


Weller, Abraham B. 


39 


Thome, Alexander L. 


64 


Jackson 


45 


Tilden, George C. 


75 


Welles, Edward 


48 


Tilson, Rosnal J. W. 


32 


Francis R. 


75 


Timlow, Rev. Dr. Philip 


32 


Welling, Isaac H. 


71 


Timmins, Joseph 


82 


Wells, Bard 


•78 


Titman. Jacob 
Titus, Uriel B. 


61 


Francis B. 


'61 


42 


Thomas T. 


'74 


Toda, Uji Taka 


78 


Wm. Guy 


'80 


Tomkins, William H. 


46 


Welsh, Judson P. 


'82 


Townsend, Absalom 


32 


Werntz, A. J. 
Westcott, Ebenezer 


57 


Joseph A. 


82 


'34 


Trenchard, J. H. 


34 


Welmore, Edward D. 


'82 


Trexler, Dr. Lesher 


34 


Wharton, Edward A. 


'S5 


Trippe, John F. 


72 


Wheeler, Wm. 


'78 


Truitt, Charles R. 


81 


Whilldin, Wm. D. 


'8d 


Truxtun, Scott 


'79 


White, George B. 


'76 



322 



The Men of Lafayette, 



White, Henry K. 

John W. 
Whiton, Albert 
Wierman, Charles 
Wigton, Wm. H. 
Wilbur, Wm. N. 
Wilhelm, John S. 
Williams, Charles E. 

Charles W. 

John J. 
Wilson, Charles 

Charles L. 

Dr. HughO. 

James 

James F. 

James S. 

James W. 

John 

John B. 

Rev. John F. 

Samuel 

Samuel G. 



1855 
'75 
47 
35 
74 



Wilson, Rev. Thos. (See 

Appendix.) 
Wilson, Thomas M. i: 

Wm. A. P. 
Wiltrout, Dr. I. D. 
Winter, Dr. Jacob C. 
Wolf, G. W. 
Wood, Daniel B. 

Oliver R. 
Woodring, Wm. H. 
Woods, Matthew C. 

Dr. Walter V. 
Woodward, Washington B. 
Woolverton, Dr. John 
Worrell, Rev. C. B'., D.D. 

Franklin A. 

Rev. Joseph 

Milton E. 
Wright, James C. 

John C. 

Rev. Nomer J. 

Wm. H. 



|Wurts, Rev. Wm. A. ti 

Wynkoop, Benjamin B. 

Xander, George L. 

Yates, Stephen S. ]6o 

Yelverton, Thomas '66 

Yeomans, Rev. Alf.,D.D. '43 

Rev. E, D., D.D. 

Dr. George '43 

Youmans, Dr. James '36 

Young, Benjamin F. '77 

Charles O. [76 

James S. '37 

Rev. Jesse B. 

John M. 

Wm. S. 

Wm. S. 

Youngman, Thomas W. '71 

Yoxtheimer, Wm. '39 

Zahniser, Charles M. '77 

Zeigler, Dr. Walter M. L. '73 



APPENDIX, 



CONTAINING REVISIONS OF SKETCHES RECEIVED 

AFTER THE PRINTING OF THE PRECEDING PAGES. 



Class op 1840. *Rev. John M. Lowrie, D.D. — Add to page 
17 the titles of his works, viz : "Adam and his Times," "Esther 
and her Times," "Hebrew Lawgiver," two volumes; "Life of 
David," "Prophet Elisha," "Translated Prophet," "Week with 
Jesus." 

Class of 1844. David Kearney McDonogh, M.D., New York 
City Born in New Orleans, La., Aug. 10, 1825; in 1838 he en- 
tered the Preparatory Department ; read medicine under Dr. 
Abernethy, in Easton, and graduated at the College of Physi- 
cians and Surgeons, in New York, in '47, where he has since 
been in continuous practice; he has held positions in the New 
York Hospital and the Eye and Ear Infirmary, and since '49 has 
been in continuous practice ; office, at 213 Sullivan street ; resi- 
dence, 239 South Orange avenue, Newark, N. J. 

Class of 1855. William McCormick Allison, A.M., Mifflin- 
town, Juniata Go. — Lawyer; born in Kilbarchan, Renfrewshire, 
Scotland; entered Sophomore in 1851, and being absent a year, 
'52-3, returned and entered Junior in '53, graduating with an 
Honoi'ary Oration ; studied law at Mifflintown, and was admit- 
ted to the bar Sept. 4, '60 ; founder and editor of Altoona Tri- 
bune^ '56-8; junior editor of Juniata Regiater in '58; founded 
the Juniata Republican and edited it, '66-T, and '72-3; Quarter- 
master Sergeant in the 126th Pa. Infantry, '62-3; assistant As- 
sessor of Internal Revenue, '66-9 ; founder and editor of New 
Era, at Hendersonville, N. C, from July 1, '77, to Jan. 1, '79, 

Rev. David Caldwell Thompson. — To the sketch on page 
43 add : Born in Chester county, in 1834 ; installed as pastor of 
the First Presbyterian church of Southwark, Philadelphia, Feb. 
13, '79. 



324 The Men of Lafayette. 

Henry Swoope Wharton, Huntingdon. — Born at Ilnnting- 
don, Mii}^ 2, 1833; entered Freshman, second terra; commenced 
the study of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, but on 
account of failing health, dis(n)ntiiuied it; he was freiglit and 
passenger agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 'St-'O'i, and 
since '62, in manufacturing business; member of the Pennsyl- 
vania Legislature, '()7-8. 

Class of 185(5. Lemuel G. Grter, Birmingham, Huntingdon 
Go. — Born in Bucks county, July 11, 1831; since graduation he 
has been engaged in teaching— first, as Principal of the Kishaco- 
quillas Seminary, in Juniata county, and for the past twenty 
years at the head of the Birmingham Seminary, 
» 

Rev. David Mi:lville IIeydrick, Brooklyn, N.Y. — Born at 
Flourtown, Montgomery ^county, Nov. 11, 182G; he learned the 
trade of a carpenter and builder, and was so engaged for six 
years before his college course; graduated at Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary in '59, and since Oct., '59, lias been continu- 
ously engaged, with remarkable success, in city mission work in 
Brooklyn. 

Charles Vastine, A.M., M.l)., St. Louis, Mo. — Born at Wil- 
liamsport, Lycoming county,' Pa., June 28, 183G; graduated at 
Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, in '59; engaged in medical 
practice since '65; he was Professor of Physiology in llomoi- 
opathic Medical College of Missouri, '67-'74 ; resides at 1409 
Olive street. 

Joseph Paxton Vastine, A.M., St. Louis, Mo. — Lawyer; 
born at Williamsport, Pa., Dec. 21, 1837; he studied law in St. 
Louis, and was admitted to the bar, Dec, '59; was Assistant 
Circuit Attorney, Dec., '61 -5; Circuit Attorney, Dec. ,'65-7 ; Pub- 
lic Administrator, Dec, '67-9; Judge of Probate, Dec, '69-'71 ; 
member of the Republican State Central Committee four years. 

Class of 1859. Joseph Charles Ferriday, A.M., Vidalia, 
Concordia Parish, La. — Born in Natchez, Miss., April 5, 1840 ; 
entered Freshman, second term; he was engaged in the Trans- 
portation Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad until '66, 
when he took charge of his plantation in Louisiana. 



Appendix. 325 

Class of 1861. Uev. S. W. Pomehov, ML Union^ Hunting- 
don Co. — Entered Sophomore; in the war, served as First Ser- 
geant in Company H, I'iOtli Fa. Regiment; giadiiated at Prince- 
ton Tlieological Seminary in '66 ; licensed at Middletown, June 
V, '65; preached in Seventh Street Church, Ilarrisburg, from 
September 20, '66, to April 12, '67 ; at McConnellsburg from 
May 24, to August 16, '68, wlien he was ordained and installed 
pastor, and continued there until April 12, '71, when he became 
pastor of Newton Hamilton and Mt. Union churches, '71-8, and 
since October 2, '78, of Mt. Union and Shirleysburg churches. 

Class of 1866. C. M. Sitgueaves.— In March, 1879, became 
Principal of the Academy at Cutchogue, Long Island. 

Class of 1867. Robert Henry Smith, A.M., Baltimore,, Md. 
— Add to his sketch on page 73 the following: Lawyer; born 
in Lower Chanceford, York county. Pa.; taught until '68, when 
he commenced the study of law in Baltimore, in oflice of 
Sebastian Brown, Esq., and was admitted to the bar, June 28, '70, 
and he has since been associated with Mr. Brown in practice, 
making Admiralty law a specialt3' ; Superintendent of the Second 
Presbyterian Sunday-school since '69; address is 53 St. Paid 
street. 

Class of 1868. Rev. Richard Arthur, A.M., Scotland., 
Franklin Co. — Born at Chestnut Level, Lancaster county, March 
21, 1845; graduated at Western Theological Seminary in '71 ; 
licensed and ordained by the Presbytery of Westminster, June 6, 
'71; foreign missionary to Bangkok, Siam, '71-3, returning be- 
cause of the failure of his wife's health; from January to April, 
'74, he preached in the churches of Hopewell and Little Britain; 
in '74, taught in Stewartstown Academy; pastor of Warfords- 
burg and Buck Valle3' churches in Fulton county; then preached 
at Green Hill and Wells Valley, same county; now preaching at 
Fayetteville and Scotland. 

Class of 1869. Frank Wells Stewart, A.M., EoMon.— Born 
in Easton, in 1849; clerk in the odice of the Central Railroad of 
New Jersey until April, '70, when he entered his father's wholesale 
notion and fancy goods store, and since January, '75, has been a 
partner in the business. 



326. The Me7i of Lafayette, 

Class op 18H. Rev. William Wiely, Jr., Downingtown^ 
Chester Co. — Born at Wallace, Chester county, August 27, 1846; 
for three years after graduation he was Principal of the Public 
School at Smith's Landing, N. J.; ordained February 29, '76; 
from November, '75, to Maj^ 1, '79, was pastor of the Baptist 
church at Rockville Centre, Long Island. 

Class of 1872. Samuel Henry Houser, Moosic, Lackawanna 

Co. — Born at White Haven, Luzerne county, August 7,1851; 

'after graduation, engaged in mercantile business at Moosic until 

'77, when he entered the employ of the Moosic Powder Company. 

William P. Gaines is now at Cheyenne, Wyoming Territory. 

Class of 1873. Rev. Walter Moffat Shanks, A.M., Z)eyi- 
mark, Tuscola Co., Mich. — The sketch on page 93 should be 
changed to read as follows: Born in the town-land of Oughley, 
County Down, Ireland; his preparation for college was obtained 
principally while clerking in New York, in the Cooper Union 
Free Night-schools; after a four years' course in the Reformed 
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, in Allegheny City, he grad- 
uated there in '77 ; since which time he has been engaged as a 
missionary, chiefly in Tuscola county, Michigan. 

Class of 1876. Thomas A. H. Hay, of Easton, on April 28, 
1879, went to Helena, Montana, to accept an appointment in the 
United States Assay Office. 

Class op 1877. Abraham Hogeland, C.E., Davisville, Bucks 
Co. — Born at Southampton, Bucks county; received honorable 
mention in Astronomy; agriculturist. 

Simon Cameron Long, C.E., Pine Grove, Schuylkill Co. — 
Born at Fisherville, Dauphin county, Sept. 7, 1855; is now en- 
gaged in clerking and the study of languages. 

Rev. Oram Howard McAnulty, Sherburne, N.Y.— Born in 
Reading, Jan. 1, 1849; before engaging in study he was a ma- 
chinist ; he entered the Junior class from Drew Theological 
Seminary; received a Douglass Prize in Christian classics in '76; 
entered the Wyoming conference of the M. E. church in April, 
'77; pastor at Hyde Park in '77-8, and since at Sherburne. 



Appendix. 327 

Clinton Creveling Snyder, C.E,, Scranton. — Born at Espy, 
Columbia county, May 19, 1854; since graduation he lias been 
draughtsman for the Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company at 
Scranton. 

Class of 18t8. W. P. Tayi^ok.^ 3Iooresburg, Northiiviberland 
Co. — Born in England in 1852; studied in Phillips Andover 
Academy; Freshman and Sophomore at Amherst College; en- 
tered Lafayette, Junior; since graduation teaching Latin in the 
Princeton College Preparatory School. 

FORMER STUDENTS, 

Class of 1834. William Cox, A.M., Philadelphia. — Lawyer; 
add to the sketch on page 140: Born in Easton, Feb. 8, 1820; 
entering the Freshman class in '34, he left college in his Senior 
year, shortly before graduation; studied law in the office of Geo. 
M. Wharton, Esq., in Philadelphia, and was admitted to the 
Philadelphia bar in June, '44 ; he married Miss Elizabeth Boyn- 
ton Camac, daughter of the late John Markoe, Esq., of Philadel- 
phia, and since '65, has been residing abroad ; his communication 
to the compiler was written from 51 Promenade des Anglais 
Nice, France, April, 1879; in it he states his permanent address 
to be in care of George Emlen, Esq., 312 Walnut street, Phila- 
delphia. 

Robert C. Ross, A.M., Chicago^ III. — Born at Washington, 
ville, Columbia (now Montour) county; a student in modern 
languages and mathematics in 1834-5 ; in his youth he made the 
tour of Europe ; has taught for forty years, first at Milton, 
Danville and Lewistown, Pa., where, in '54, he was elected Super- 
intendent of Schools of Mifflin county, the first incumbent of the 
office; in '49 he received the degree of A.M. from Lafayette ; in 
'57 he removed to Indiana, and but recently relinquished teach- 
ing ; he is now assisting his son, an artist ; address is 264 
Wabash avenue, Chicago. 

Class of 1836. William Hill, Flemington^ N. J. — Add to 
page 156: Born in Flemington, Feb. 13, 1822; entered the 
Academical Department in '36, and remained two years ; has 
since resided at Flemington, engaged principally in mercantile 
and manufacturing pursuits ; was a Justice of the Peace for one 
term of five years and is now Postmaster. 



328 The Men of Lafayette. 

Class of 1837. *Hewson Cox.— Substitute for the sketch on 
page 157 : Born in Easton, May 4, 1821 ; in college Freshman 
and Sophomore years, '37-8 : resided several years in South 
America ; served as statlinterpreter to General Scott during the 
Mexican war ; in '50 he married Miss Mary Ricketts, daughter of 
William M. Camac, Esq., of Philadelphia ; died in Chester coun- 
ty, March 10, '59. 

Henry Hall Green, Mora^ Mora Co., New Mexico. — Add to 
page 154: Born at Fort Dearborn, now Chicago, HI., June 16, 
1822. His father, John Green, was an ofllcer in the U. S Army, 
who fell a victim to disease in the Seminole war. He writes : 
" My 3'outh was passed on the frontier of our country, chiefly at 
Forts Mackinaw, Crawford and Winnebago; I hunted wolves 
and foxes on the tract of land that is now in the very heart of 
Chicago, and saw erected there the First Old School Presbyterian 
church, and was baptized in it by Jeremiah Porter, the pioneer 
preacher of that day ; in later years I was the frequent associate 
of the old mountaineers of Fremont's early da3's, St. Vrain, Bent, 
Maxwell, Le Roux, Rouelle, Hatcher, Barkley, Do^de, Christopher 
(Kit) Carson and others, all brave, honest, true men — illiterate, 
but none better for opening up a wild, new country — all are 
dead I In April, 1837, I was sent from Fort Winnebago, Ouis- 
consin, to Easton, a long, tedious and somewhat dangerous trip 
in that day." He was in college from '37 to '41, when he was 
appointed, by President Buchanan, a cadet at West Point ; in 
'43 he resigned his commission, and until '46 was engaged as a 
civil engineer under Captain Thomas J. Crain, U. S. Topograph- 
ical Engineer, operating on the harbor of St. Louis ; in '46 en- 
listed in the Mexican war, serving as Lieutenant, Quartermaster 
and Commissary; in '51 he removed to New Mexico, where he 
still resides, a prominent citizen, and engaged in mercantile and 
milling business ; for six years, '64-'70, he held prominent posi- 
tions in the Internal Revenue and .Inspection service; he was 
nominated successively by Presidents Johnson and Grant as 
Assessor of Internal Revenue for the Territory of New Mexico, 
but through political opposition failed of confirmation by the 
Senate, Col, Green being a member of the Democratic party. 

Class of 1838. -''James McLean. — Born at Mauch Chunk ; a 
student in 1838-9; resided at Summit Hill, where he was an 



Appendix. 329 

operator in coal from '46, and President of the First National 
Bank at Wilkes-Barre from '62 until his death, which was caused 
by a railroad accident, in the spring of '63 ; he was a brother of 
Hon. Samuel McLean, M.C., noticed on page 186. 

Dr. Nathan L. Price — page 163 — is reported as a resident of 
Ottumwa, Wapello county, Iowa. 

*Washington B. Woodward. — Born in Kennett township, 
Chester county. May 29, 1814, and died Dec. 14, '44 ; he was in 
college '38-9 ; he married Edith B., daughter of Jacob Lamborn, 
who survived him, and recently resided in Philadelphia ; the 
younger of his two sons, Washington, practiced medicine in Wil- 
mington, Del., but is dead. 

Class of 1841. Joseph Augustus Hinchman, San Francisco., 
Gal. — Born at Schooley's Mountain, N. J.; a student in 1841-2; 
in California, Dec, '51, to '61, where he was Deputy Surveyor of 
the Poi't of Santa Barbara, and Secretary of the San Francisco 
Post-office ; engaged with the Western Union and U. S. Tele- 
graph Companies, '61-'73; Chief Clerk in the New York Post- 
office, '73-Y, and since Nov., '77, Chief Clerk of the Western 
Union Telegraph Company in San Francisco. 

Class of 1842. Washington Watts McDonogh. — Add to 
the sketch on page 177 : He was the son of James and Fillis 
Watts ; born in New Orleans, La., in 1827 ; in special course 
three years ; is now living in Sinou, Liberia. 

Class op 1843. *Bazel N. Goines, named on page 181 ; on 
leaving college, resided first in Philadelphia, and afterward at Al- 
bany, N. y., where he died a few years ago. 

John F. Wilson, named on page 182, was a companion of 
Messrs. Gibbs and Goines ; when he left college he became a 
sailor, and when last heard from was sailing between San 
Francisco and China, The title Rev. should be transferred from 
his name to that of 

*Rev. Thomas Wilson, a very worthy man, from Trenton, 
N. J., who, in a brief course at Lafayette, made preparation for 
engaging in missionary work in Africa. With his wife and six 
daughters, he went to Liberia, and died in a few months from 
his arrival. 



330 The Mett of Lafayette. 

Class of 1847. *A. Clarkson Smith, M.D Add to page 

199: He was the son of Dr. Wm, Smith; was born in Chance- 
ford township,York county', in 1832 ; his preparatory course was 
conducted at York, in the Academy of Rev. Stephen Boyer; he 
studied medicine under his uncle, Dr. J. S. Clarkson, of Colum- 
bia, and Dr. J. L. Atlee, of Lancaster, and graduated in medicine 
at the University of Pennsylvania, in '52 ; he located in Colum- 
bia, and "Was faithful and successful in his services during the 
prevalence of cholera there in September and October, 1854; in 
the following year he offered his professional aid in the yellow 
fever epidemic a^ong the Southern Atlantic Coast, and was as- 
signed to duty at Norfolk, A'^a., where he feil a victim to the dis- 
ease. A martyr to his profession, he left the record of bright 
prospects of usefulness and eminence. 

Class or 1854. Dr. Thomas J. P. Devor, erroneously re- 
ported deceased, and so stated on page 205, located in Texas be- 
fore the War, and is still there ; address, Clarkesville, Red River, 
count}^, Texas. 

Class of 1858. John Remsen Baldwin, llorristown, N. J. — 
Born at Flatlands, Kings county. Long Island, N. Y., Feb. 28, 
1839 ; in college Freshman and Sophomore years; since '56, he 
has been engaged in business as clerk for the Atlantic and Pa- 
cific Telegraph Company, and in the United States Bonded 
Warehouse; clerk and cashier of the National Ice Co , New York 
City, '71-6, and since '76, in mercantile business at Morristown. 

Class of 1873. Dr. Stroud H. Jackson was erroneously re- 
ported deceased, as stated on page 246 ; a letter from his father, 
Dr. A. R. Jackson, of 785 Michigan avenue, Chicago, states that 
his son is living, and prospering in his profession. 

Class of 1878. A. B. Weaver, Clearfield., Pa. — Add to page 
279: He was born at Clearfield, March 12,1857; since Feb., 
'78, he has been a book-keeper, and also tax-collector, and ex- 
pects to enter into business with his father. 

On page 274 should have been inserted the name of John 
Thompson Cathers, of Beynoldsville, Jefferson county, Pa., a 
student in partial course, in 1875-6. 




Prof. James H. Coffin, LL. D. 



SKETCHES OF 

MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY. 



Solon Albee, A.M., was born in Langdon, N. H., April 14, 
1827; he finished liis preparatory studies at Kimball Union 
Academy, Meriden, N. H., in 184T ; graduated at Middlebury 
College, Vt., in 1851 ; taught in Montreal, Canada, and Mount 
Holly, N. J. 1851-2; he was Tutor in Lafayette, 1852-4; Tutor 
in Middlebury College, 1854-5; then he entered Andover Theo- 
logical Seminary, graduated in 1859, and was licensed to preach 
the gospel by the South Middlesex Association of Congregation- 
al Ministers, at Boston, Mass., January, 1859. He was Classical 
teacher in Burr and Burton Seminary, Manchester, Vt., 1860-2 ; 
Principal of the Dummer Academy, Byfield, Mass., 1863-4 ; 
taught again in Burr and Burton Seminary, 1864-6, and in 1866 
became Professor of the Latin Language and Literature in Mid- 
dlebury, where be still remains ; acting also as Librarian of the 
College. 

Joseph Alden, D.D., LL.D., was born at Cairo, Green county, 
N. Y., January 4, 1801; the first two years of his course were 
spent at Brown University, and the remainder at Union College, 
N. Y., where he graduated in 1828; he then entei-ed the Theo- 
logical Seminary at Princeton, where he spent two years, and 
was then, for two years. Tutor in Nassau Hall ; in 1834 he, was 
ordained pastor at Williamstown, and in August, 1835, elected 
Professor of Rhetoric in Williams College ; from 1853-7 he was 
Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Lafayette ; Presi- 
dent of Jefferson College, 1857-60 ; in 1867 he became Principal of 
the New York State Normal School, at Albany, a position that 

Note. — A complete list of the members of the Faculty may be found on pages 69-72 of Pro- 
fessor Owen's Historical Sketches. Sketches of those who are graduates of Lafayette are con- 
tained in the earlier pages of this work; and an Alphabetical list of these is given on page 308. 
Notices of the Presidents and of several Professors are also contained in Professor Owen's work. 
This chapter embraces the remainder, so far as they could be obtained. 



332 The Men of Lafayette^ 

he still retains ; he received the degree of D.D< from Union Col- 
lege in 1838, and LL.D. from Columbia College in 1857. He is the 
author of numerous instructive works for the young, and has 
been a constant contributor to the periodical literature of the 
countrj'-. He is also author of " Elements of Intellectual Philoso^ 
phy," "Science of Government in Connection with American In- 
stitutions," "Christian Ethics, or the Science of Duty," "Studies 
in Bryant," and a work recently issued, "Thoughts on the Re- 
ligious Life," with an introduction by W. C. Bryant. 

Rev. E. Thompson Baird, D,D., now a resident of Richmond, 
Virginia, was Professor of Cliemistry in Lafayette in 1845-6. 
He received the honorary degree of A.M. from Jefferson College 
in 1843. He was the editor of the St. Louis Presbyterian in 1853-4, 
and agent for Domestic missions in Louisville in 1855. In 1856 
he received the degree of D.D., being at that time a resident of 
Columbus, Mississippi. In 1858 he became stated supply of the 
church at Crawfordsville, Mississippi. He has of late j-^ears held 
the oflSce of Secretary of the Publication Committee of the 
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly' in Richmond, and also 
acted as stated supply of the Ashland church. 

Arthur Latham Baker, C.E., was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, 
May 7, 1853. He graduated at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, in Troy, in 1873, and was immediately appointed adjunct- 
Professor of Civil and Topographical Engineering in Lafayette. 
He was admitted to the bar of Northampton county, on examina- 
tion, in April, 1878. He is a member of the Troy Scientific So- 
ciety, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advance- 
ment of Science. 

Rev. Addison Ballard, D.D., was born in Framingham, Mass., 
October 18, 1822. He prepared for college at the Framingham 
Academj"^, and at the school of his uncle. Rev. James Ballard, 
Bennington, Vt., and graduated at Williams College in 1842. 
He taught the Hopkins Academy at Hadley, Mass., one year after 
graduation ; was Tutor in Williams College from September, 
1843, to June, 1844, but left before the expiration of the year on 
account of ill health. From 1845 to 1846 he was Principal of an 
academy at Grand Rapids, Mich., and the following year was 
engaged as a home missionary in Hand River Valley in the same 



Members of the Faculty. 333 

State. He was then for seven years Professor of Latin and 
Mathematics in the Ohio University, at Athens ; the ensuing year 
he filled the Professorship of Rhetoric in Williams College, and 
from 1855 to 1857 was Professor of Natural Philosophy and 
Astronomy in Marietta College, Ohio. From 1857 to 1866 he 
resided at Williamstown, engaged most of the time as pastor of 
the Congregational church. June 1st, 1866, he was installed 
pastor of the First Congregational church in Detroit, whence he 
was called to the Professorship of Christian Greek and Latin in 
Lafayette in 1874. He has published a number of sermons and 
addresses, and is the author of the Introduction to the Ecclesias- 
tical History of Eusebius. 

E. Hubbard Barlow, A.M., was born at Lee, Mass., April 18, 
1839. After teaching in Tyringham, South Lee and Lee, and in 
Wolcottville, Conn., he entered Amherst College, and graduated 
in 1866. He made Physical and Vocal Culture a professional 
study in Boston in 1866-7, and has since been frequently called on 
to give public readings and lectures. For two years he was assist- 
ant principal of the Normal School, at Bridgewater, Mass. ; in 
1868, Principal of the High School at North Brookfield ; in 
1869-'70, Instructor in English in Amherst College and Profes- 
sor of Elocution in the Amherst Agricultural College. In 1870 
he was appointed to the Professorship of Rhetoric, Elocution and 
Ph^'sical Culture in Lafayette. He is the author of a Manual of 
Reading, published in 1873. 

Francis C. Blake, was born at Cumberland, Maine, Feb. 23, 
1854 ; he is the son of Rev. Joseph Blake, D.D., then pastor of 
the Congregational church in that place, but now a resident of 
Andover, Mass. Mr. Blake studied at Gilmanton, N. H., and at 
the age of sixteen went to Worcester, where, three years later, he 
entered the Technical Institute, and completed his course in 1876 ; 
in the fall of the same year he came to Lafayette, at first as an 
assistant in the Laboratories, and afterward Tutor and adjunct 
Professor of Analytical Chemistry. In May, 1879, he was appoint- 
ed, by the Pennsylvania Lead Company, assistant superintend- 
ent in their works, at Manchester, near Pittsburg. 

Rev. Augustus Alexis Bloombergh, Ph.D., was born in 
UflTenheim, Bavaria, February 13, 1835. He pursued a full course 



334 The Me?t of Lafayette. 

of classical study in the Gymnasium of Ansbach, and in 1852 
became a student of law in the University of Wurzburg, where 
he remained three years. After some years spent in teaching, he 
entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1864, and completed 
the course in 1867. While there he was Tutor of Latin in the 
College of New Jersey, 1865-7. In 1867 he entered upon his 
duties as Professor of Modern Languages in Lafayette. January 
6, 1874, he was ordained to the gospel ministry by the Presbyteiy 
of Lehigh. 

Rev. George Burrowes, D.D., was born in Trenton, N. J., 
April 3, Ibll ; he received his classical education at the school 
of Mr. James Hamilton, afterwards Professor of Mathematics in 
the University of Nashville, Tenn. ; for three years he took 
charge of an Academy at Allentown, N. J.; and in Nov., 1830, 
entered the Junior class in the College of New Jersey, where he 
graduated in '32. In the fall of that year he commenced the 
study of theology in Princeton Seminary, but for some 
months he also acted as a Tutor in the college, and completed 
his theological course in the fall of 1835; in July, 1836, he be- 
came pastor of the West Nottingham church, and what is now 
Port Deposit church, at the same time taking charge of the West 
Nottingham Academ^^ ; his pastorate here was greatly blessed 
by numerous additions to the church. He became Professor of 
Latin and Greek in Lafayette in 1850, and filled the chair until 
March, 1855, when, much broken in health, for four yeai's he re- 
cruited his strength as a country pastor in Newtown ; in June, 
1859, he went to California with a commission from the Board of 
Education to lay the foundation of a Presbyterian college on the 
Pacific coast, a work in which he was eminently successful. In 
1865-9 his name again appeared on the catalogues of Lafayette as 
Professor of Biblical Instruction ; returning to California he 
took an active part in the organization, in 1871, of the San 
Francisco Theological Seminary, in which he has been, from its 
opening, the Professor of Hebrew and Old Testament Literature. 
In 1853 he published his Commentary on the Song of Solomon, 
and three years later, Octorara, a poem. 

Andrew H. Caughey, A.M., was born in Pennsylvania, No- 
vember 1, 1827. His preparatory education was obtained at the 



Members of the Faculty. 335 

Erie Academy ; he entered Washiugton College and graduated 
in 1849 ; he then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1851. 
After practicing a short time, in the spring of 1852 he became 
the proprietor of a newspaper, which he continued until 1857. 
During a portion of this period, and down to the year 1868, he 
held the position of Secretary of the Pennsylvania Erie Canal 
Company. In 1862 he issued a volume entitled Home, and other 
Poems, published by Carleton. During the summer of this year 
he made a trip to Europe. In 1864 he joined with a friend m the 
establishment of a book-store in the city of Erie. From 1868 to 
1874 he was Principal of the Erie Academy. In the latter year 
he delivered the Quarter Century Address at the Commencement 
exercises of his Alma Mater, which was published in book form. 
In 1875 he entered upon his duties as adjunct-Professor of the 
Latin language and literature in Lafayette. 

Rev. Lyman Coleman, D.D., was born in Middlefield, Mass., 
June 14, 1796 ; he graduated at Yale College in 1817, and for 
three succeeding j^ears was Principal of the Latin Grammar 
School at Hartford, Conn., and subsequently a Tutor at Yale for 
four years, where he studied theology; in 1828 he became pastor 
of the Congregational church at Belchertown, Mass., and held 
the charge seven years : afterwards. Principal of the Burr Semi- 
nary, Vermont, five years ; then Principal of the English Depart- 
ment of Phillips Academ}', in Andover, Mass., five years; the years 
1842-3 he spent in Gei-many in study and in travel, and on his 
return was made Professor of German in the College of New 
Jersey, from which he received the degi'ee of S.T.D. ; he con- 
tinued there and at Amherst, Mass., and Philadelphia the next 
fourteen years, in connection with diiferent literary institutions ; 
he revisited Europe in 1856, and extended his travels to the 
Holy Land, the Desert, and Egypt, and in 1861 he became 
Professor of Ancient Languages in Lafayette. His principal 
published works are, " The Antiquities of the Christian Church," 
*' The Apostolical and Primitive Church," "An Historical 
Geography of the Bible," " Ancient Christianity Exemplified," 
" Historical Text-book and Atlas of Biblical Geography." These 
have been republished in England. He also compiled the Gene- 
alog}'^ of the Lj^man Family, and contributed a number of articles 
to American Quarterlies, 



336 The Men of Lafayette. 

Rev. William Cunningham was a licensed minister whose 
name appears on the catalogue as Vice-President and Professor of 
Ancient Languages in 183t-9. He was an enthusiast on the sub- 
ject of improving the attainments and skill of teachers ; with 
this object in view, the building, which long continued to be 
known as the Model School, was erected in 1838 ; the first story 
was designed for a Laboratory and Philosophical Lecture room, 
the upper story to be devoted to the purposes of a Normal School. 
This was the first institution of the kind in the Commonwealth. 
Prof. Cunningham, however, early returned to Scotland, the land 
of his birth ; and there, with the aid of his wife, conducted for 
some years, and with great success, a seminary for young ladies- 
Acquiring a competence he retired from teaching ; and, at Stran- 
rear, now occupies the former residence of the well-known Arctic 
explorer, Captain James Parry, a house planned and erected by 
that eminent navigator, and finished with all the paraphernalia of 
a ship, cabin, sky lights, etc. 

Thomas Messinger Drown, M.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
March 19, 1842. In 1859 he graduated at the Philadelphia High 
School, and three years later at the Medical Department of the 
University of Pennsylvania; subsequently he studied at the 
Sheffield and Lawrence Scientific Schools, and in Germany at the 
Mining School of Freiberg and the University of Heidelberg. He 
was an instructor in Metallurgy in Harvard University in 
1869-70; a member of the American Institute of Mining En- 
gineers from its origin, and its Secretary since 1872. The seven 
annual volumes of its Proceedings have been issued under his 
auspices. In 1874 he was elected to the Professorship of An- 
alytical Chemistry in Lafayette, a chair endowed by William 
Adamson, Esq. 

Rev. James Read Eckard, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, 
November 22, 1805 ; his father, J. Frederick Eckard of the Island 
of St. Thomas, was Danish Consul for the Middle States. Grad- 
uating from the University of Pennsylvania, in 1823, he studied 
law under Hon. John M. Read, and practiced from December, 
1826, until the spring of 1830, when he commenced the study of 
theology, having made a profession of religion in Septembei', 
1829. During this period he was an active member of the Board 



Members of the Faculty. 337 

of Directors of the Public Schools of Philadelphia, uiul a Director 
of the Society for Promoting Public Schools in Pennsylvania. 
He entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1831, and was 
licensed to preach in October, 1833, when he sailed for Colombo, 
Ceylon, as a missionary of the American Board. On reaching 
Ceylon he was connected with the Mission Seminary at Patticot- 
ta. In 1843 he returned to New York, and afterwards, for three 
3'ears, was Principal of the Chatliam Academy in Savannah, (Ja., 
at the same time laboring for the religious instruction of the 
slaves. From 1848 to 1858, he was pastor of the Second Presby- 
terian church in Washington City, in the latter year receiving 
the degree of D,D. from Lafayette. He lield the Professorship 
of Rhetoric, to which History was added, from October, 1858, to 
1871. He now resides with his son, at Abington. He published, 
in the Tamil language, an Essay on Faith ; in English, the Hin- 
doo Traveler and a narrative of Missionary Operations. 

Joseph G. Fox, A.M., C.E., was born at Adams, Jefferson 
county, N. Y., September 7, 1833. He was a student at the State 
Normal School, at Albany, and at Rensselaer Polytechnic Insti- 
tute, graduating with honor at each. VViiile pursuing his course 
at the latter institution he acted as an Instructor in Mathematics ; 
and on graduating in 1861, he was immediately appointed adjunct- 
Professor of Geodesy and Topographical Drawing. During the 
3'ear 18G1-2 he also held the office of Assistant Engineer on the 
Troy and Albany Railroad. For the next ten years he was a 
resident of the city of New York, and engaged in teaching, chief- 
ly as Principal of the Collegiate and Engineering Institute, but 
also holding the position of Professor of Mathematics in Cooper 
Institute in 1863-4, and for seven years following Director and Pro- 
fessor of Mechanics in the same. He was Engineer of the Sixth 
Brigade, Second Division of the National Guard of N. Y., with 
the rank of Major, on General Hamilton's staff, and served with 
the Brigade during the great draft riot in New York, in July, 
1863, and also in garrison duty in the forts ahtout New York har- 
bor in 1864. In 1864 he received the degree of A.M. from Co- 
lumbia College. From 1866 to 1871 he filled the chair of Geodesy 
and Mechanical Drawing in the University of the City of New 
York, and was engaged in the construction of various engineer- 
ing works. In 1872 he became Professor of Civil and Topograph- 
ical Engineering in Lafayette. 



338 The Men of Lafayette. 

Robert Frazer, A.M., was born in Philadelphia, July 22, 1849. 
He graduated at the University' of Pennsylvania in 1867 ; then 
was engaged for two years in the service of the Camden and At- 
lantic Railroad Company, a corporation of which his father was 
President, when, in 1869, he went to Schuylkill county as a Min- 
ing Engineer. He was the adjunct-Professor of Civil and Topo- 
graphical Engineering in Lafa3'ette in 1872-3. Resigning this 
appointment, in January, 1874, he accepted the position of prin- 
cipal Assistant Engineer of the Lehigh Valley Coal Company, 
having his office at Ashland, where he has since resided. He 
is a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

Samuel Galloway, A.M., was born in Northampton county. 
He graduated at Princeton in 1831; was Professor of Mathe- 
matics in Lafayette in 1834-5. He has long resided in the South, 
engaged in teaching. In 1853 be published a work of 372 pages, 
entitled Ergonomy ; or Industrial Science. His name is entered 
on the list of ministers of the Southern Presbyterian church as a 
licentiate of the Presbytery of Florida, and recently a resident of 
Athens, Georgia. 

Traill Green, M.D., LL.D., was born in Easton, May 25, 
1813. His academic education was received under the care of 
the late Rev. John Vanderveer, D.D. He graduated in medicine 
at the University of Pennsylvania in 1835, and immediately lo- 
cated in practice in Easton. In 1837 he became Professor of 
Chemistry in Lafayette; in 1841 he received the degree of A.M. 
from Rutgers College, and the same year he was called to the 
chair of Natural Sciences in Marshall College, at Mercersburg, 
where he remained until his return to Easton in 1847, and the 
following year resumed the Professorship of Chemistry, which he 
still holds. He received the degree of LL.D. from Washington 
and Jefferson College in 1866. He has been for over thirty years 
a member and Fellow of the American Association for the Ad- 
vancement of Science; he was the first President of the American 
Academy of Medicine, President of the State Medical Associa- 
tion, and a member of other scientific bodies. He is the orator- 
elect to pronounce the next annual address before the 
Alumni of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsyl- 
vania, 



Members of the Faculty. 339 

Samuel D. Gross, M.D,, LL.D., the first Professor of Chemis- 
try iu Lafayette, 1832-4, was born near Easton, July 8, 1805. 
After leaving Lafayette he was a Professor in the University of 
Louisville, Ky., and since June, 1856, Professor of the Institutes 
and Practice of Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College in Phil- 
adelphia. He is the author of some sixteen volumes on Medical 
and Surgical topics, the chief of which is his System of Surgery. 
He received the degree of D.C.L. from Oxford University. 

Edward Hart, Ph.D., was born at Doylestown, Pa., November 
18, 1854, and there pursued his studies until he became a special 
student of Chemistry, first with Professor Drown, in Philadelphia, 
and afterward as the incumbent of a Fellowship in Johns Hopkins 
University. In 1874 he came to Lafayette as an assistant in the 
Laboi'atories ; he was at Johns Hopkins University in 1876-8, 
where in the latter year he issued a Hand-Book of Volumetric 
Analysis^ 326 pages, 12mo. In September, 1878, he returned to 
Lafayette as adjunct-Professor of General Chemistry. 

*Rev. John Peter Hecht, was born in Bucks county, Febru- 
ary 28, 1790. Reared in Philadelphia, he preached his first ser- 
mon in that city at the age of sixteen, and two years later was 
appointed to the charge of two congregations of the Lutheran 
church, near the Trappe, in Montgomery county, whence he was 
called to Carlisle. Removing to Easton, Mr. Hecht, on Decem- 
ber 10th, 1815, commenced the labors of his thirty years' pastor- 
ate here. At that time the Lutheran and Reformed congrega- 
tions- jointly owned and worshiped in the present Reformed 
church on North Third street. Mr. Hecht was deeply interested 
in the work of the church ; was Secretary and President of the 
Synod of Pennsylvania ; was a Director, and for a time, Superin- 
tendent of Schools of Easton ; as a linguist he excelled in the 
Hebrew and German, and was Professor of the latter language in 
Lafayette from 1840 to 1845, as also a Trustee of the College. 
In May, 1845, he resigned his charge, but continued to reside in 
Easton until his decease, January, 1849. 

Charles Henry Hitchcock, Ph.D., a son of the President of 
Amherst College, was born at Amherst, August 23, 1836, and 
graduated there in 1856. He pursued a full course of theological 
study, graduating at Andover in 1861. He was assistant Geolo- 



840 The Men of Lafayette. 

gist of the State of Vermont from 1857 to 1861 ; State Geologist 
of Maine, 1861-3 ; and Lecturer on Zoology in Amherst College, 
1858-64. In 1866 he became a special student in the Jermyn 
Street School of Mines and the British Museum. From 1865 to 
1870 he was non-resident Professor of Mineralogy and Geology 
in Lafayette; since 1869 Professor of Geology in Dartmouth 
College, and since 1868 the State Geologist of New Hampshire. 
His published scientific papers, reports and books num- 
ber eighty, of which the more important are, " The Geology of 
New Hampshire," 3 vols., royal octavo, and Atlas, 1874-8, 2125 
pages ; " Geology of Vermont," 2 vols., quarto, 1861, 988 pages ; 
"Geology of Maine," 1861, 266 pages, octavo; "Relations of 
Geology to Theology," in Bibliotheca Sacra, 1867, 77 pages ; 
" Geological Map of the United States," 1874; "Mount Wash- 
ington in Winter," 1871, 

Rev. David X. Junkin, D.D., youngest brother and biographer 
of President Junkin, was born at Hope Mills, Pa. He graduated 
at Jefferson college in 1831; was a teacher of languages in the 
Germantown Academy in 1831-2; then studied theology at 
Princeton, and was pastor at Greenwich, N. J., near Easton, from 
October 24, 1834, until April 23, 1851. From 1837 to 1842, he 
gave to the College his services as Professor of Belles Lettres. 
He was pastor of the F Street church, in Washington, 1851-3 ; 
pastor at Hollidaysbui-g, 1853-60; served in the U. S. Navy as 
Chaplain of the Naval Academy, from May, 1860, to 1862, and 
the two following years as Chaplain on board the frigate Color* 
ado. He was pastor in Chicago, 1864-6, and since 1866, pastor 
at Newcastle, Pa., where he now resides. He published The 
Oath, A Divine Ordinance, etc., 1854; History of the Presbytery 
of Newton, N. J., 1868, and Historical Biography of George Jun- 
kin, 1871. 

Rev. John Leaman, A.M., M.D., is now a resident of Leaman 
Place, Lancaster county. He was born in that county, Septem- 
ber 3, 1812. He was a student at Princeton College, but on ac- 
count of hemorrhage of the lungs, was obliged to leave before 
graduating. He received from that institution the degree of A.M. 
in 1857. He graduated at the Jefferson Medical College in 1837 5 
after practicing medicine ten years he was licensed to preach the 



Members of the Faadty. 341 

gospel by the Presbytery of Donegal, September 21, 1847. In 
1848 be preached in Annapolis, Md. April 1, 1849, he took 
charge of the Cedar Grove Presbyterian church, in East Earl, 
Lancaster county, being ordained and installed pastor, OctoberSl. 
He was Professor of Natural History from 1858 to 1865, when 
his chair was changed to that of Anatomj^ and Physiology, which 
he still holds, although he has been prevented by ill-health from 
delivering his lectures to the last two classes. 

Rev. Alonzo Linn, A.M., was born at Butler, Pa., in 1827 ; 
graduated at Jefferson College in 1849 ; completed the course of 
study in the Western Theological Seminary in 1854; was Tutor 
and adjunct Professor in Lafayette from 1854 to 1857, when he 
was appointed to a Professorship in Jefferson College, now 
Washington and Jeflerson, where he has continued to the present 
lime, and is now filling the chair of Greek. 

*Rev. John Lloyd, was born in Huntingdon county, October 
1, 1813. While a student, in Jefferson College, he made a pro- 
fession of religion, and graduated with distinction in 1839. After 
teaching two years in Western Pennsylvania, he entered Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary in 1841, and during his course acted 
as Tutor in Lafa^'ette, in the summer terra of 1842. After re- 
ceiving licensure from the Presbytery of New York, and ordina- 
tion from the Presbytery of Huntingdon, he sailed for China in 
1844, there rejoining the intimate friend of his college days, the 
Rev. Walter M. Lowrie, with whom he had planned his chosen 
career as a missionary. A year after the lamented death of the 
latter, and after just four years of successful service at Amoy, 
Mr. Lloyd was attacked with typhus fever, and died December 6, 
1848. Dr. Sprague, in his Annals of the American Pulpit, says 
of him : " He possessed a vigorous mind, an equable tempera- 
ment, an amiable and generous spirit, and intense devotion to 
his work." 

Charles F. McCay, LL.D., now a resident of Baltimore, was 
born in Northumberland county, Pennsylvania. He graduated 
at Jefferson College in 1829 ; was Professor of Mathematics, 
Natural Philosophy and Astronomy in Lafayette in 1832-3. 
Afterwards he was for many years Professor of Mathematics and 



342 The Men of Lafayette. 

Civil Engineering in tlie University of Georgia, and subsequently 
President of the College of South Carolina. He received the 
degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey, in 1857. He is 
an active member of the Executive Committee on Sustentation 
and Foreign Missions of the Southern Presbyterian General As- 
sembly. 

Francis Andrew March, LL.D., was born in Millbury, Mass., 
October 25, 1825, and studied in the public schools of Worcester, 
Mass. Through Hon. Alfred D. Foster, one of the Examiners 
of these schools, he was sent to Amherst College, graduating in 
1845 with the highest honors; he then taught two years in 
Leicester Academy, Mass., and two years as Tutor in Amherst 
College; he studied law in New York City, where he was admit- 
ted to the bar in October, 1850, and began practice. In Decem- 
ber, 1851, being attacked with bleeding at the lungs, he spent the 
winter in Cuba, then went to Florida; taught three years, 1852-5, 
in Fredericksburg, Va.; in 1855 he became Tutor in Lafayette; 
in 1856 was appointed Adjunct Professor of English Literature, 
and in 1858 to the Professorship of the English Language and 
Comparative Philology, which is claimed as the first in this 
country by which extended and S3^stematic study of the English 
Language in the English Classics, in the light of modern Philolo- 
gy was co-ordinated with that of Greek and Latin. He received 
the degree of LL.D. from the College of New Jersey in 1870. 
He has heard the college classes in Constitutional Law and in 
Mental Philosophy. His earliest publication was, "The relation 
of the Study of Jurisprudence to the origin and progress of the 
Baconian Philosophy," New Englander^ October, 1848. He 
published and advocated a plan of pacification for the country, 
intheiVeio York Tmes and The PForZcZ, 1860-1. He has contribu- 
ted a number of articles in philosophy and philology to the Ameri- 
can Reviews, and to the Jahrhuch far Rom. und Englische Lit- 
erature, Berlin, 1859-61. His published works are a Method of 
Philological Study of the English Language, 1865; A Parser 
and Analyzer for beginners, 1869; Comparative Grammar of the 
Anglo-Saxon Language, London, 1870; and an Anglo-Saxon 
Reader, New York, 1870. He edited the Douglass series of 
Christian Classics, embracing Latin Hymns, Eusebius, Athena- 
goras, Tertullian, etc. 



Members of the Faculty. 343 

Rev. Arthur Mitchell, D.D., was born in Hudson, IST. Y., 
August 13, 1835; graduated at Williams College in 1853; 
Tutor in Lafayette, 1853-4; then entered Union Theological 
Seminary and graduated in 1859; was ordained May 9, 1859; 
pastor in Richmond, Va., from Ma}', 1869, to June, 1861 ; pastor 
at Morristown, N. J., 1861-8; since 1868 he has been pastor of 
the First Presbyterian church of Chicago, ministering to one of 
the largest and most liberal congregations in the bounds of the 
denomination. He received the degree of D.D. from Williams 
College in 1875. 

James Clement Moppat, D.D., was born in Scotland, and came 
to this country in 1833, with the intention of following his pro- 
fession as a printer ; but soon after landing he was introduced to 
Professor Maclean, of Princeton, through whose aid he was en- 
abled to receive a collegiate education ; he graduated at Prince- 
ton in 1836, and became private tutor to two boys about to study 
at Yale, where he attended the course of lectures in that institu- 
tion; in 1837 he returned to Princeton as Greek Tutor. In Sep- 
tember, 1889, he became Professor of Greek and Latin in Lafay- 
ette; in the spring of 1841 he removed, with Dr. Junkin, to 
Miami University, Ohio, where he was Professor of Latin and 
Modern History. In 1861 he was licensed to preach the gospel. 
In 1853 he returned to Princeton as Professor of Latin and 
History ; upon the resignation of Dr. Carnahan he was trans- 
ferred to the chair of Greek ; in 1861 he was elected by the Gen- 
eral Assembly to the chair of Church History in the Theological 
Seminary at Princeton, his present appointment. He is the 
author of an Introduction to the Study of ^-Esthetics, a Life of 
Dr. Chalmers, Clarke's History of England, with additions, and 
a Comparative View of Religions. 

Edward Stewart Moffat, A.M., M.E., son of the preceding, 
Was born at Oxford, Butler county, Ohio, January 5, 1844. On 
his father's removal to Princeton, he pursued his collegiate course 
there; served four years in the Union army, 1861-5; in June, 
1868, he graduated as a Mining Engineer from the Columbia 
College School of Mines, and immediately received the appoint- 
ment of adjunct-Professor of Mining and Metallurgy in Lafay- 
ette, a position that he held until his resignation in June, 1870. 
He has since been engaged in the management of Iron Works iia 



344 The Men of Lafayette. 

Northern New Jersey ; from 1872 to 1876 as superintendent of 
the Port Oram Iron Works; from 1876 to 1878 as superintendent 
of the Secaucus Iron Works, and since 1878 as superintendent of 
the Musconetcong Iron Works, at Stanhope, N. J. He is a mem- 
ber of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. Prof. Mof- 
fat's wife is tlie second daughter of the late Prof. McCartney. 

Rev. Isaac Gray Ogden, was born November 27, 1824. He en- 
tered Williams College from Binghamton, N. Y., and graduated 
in 1849. He studied theology at Andover; Tutor in Latayette 
during the year 1852, and has since been engaged in teaching and 
preaching in Binghamton, Sand Lake, Allegheny, Portville and 
Almond, N.Y. 

Rev. Henry Stafford Osborn, LL.D. — Born in Philadelphia, 
August 17, 1823; graduated at the University of Pennsylvania 
in 1841 ; at the Union Theological Seminary in 1845 ; ordained 
in June, 1846 ; he was stated supply at Coventry, R. I., 1845-6 ; 
and pastor successively at Hanover C. H., Va., 1846-9 ; Rich, 
mond, Va., 1849-'53 ; Liberty, Va., 1853-8 ; Salem, Va., 1858-9; 
and pastor of the Second Presbj^terian church at Belvidere,N.J., 
1859 — '66. He received the degree of LL.D. from Lafayette in 
1865; was Professor of Mining and Metallurgy in Lafayette, 
1866-'70. He has been stated supply of the church at Oxford, 
Ohio, since 1870, and Professor in Miami University, 1871-3. 
His works are Fruits and Flowers of the Holy Land ; Palestine, 
Past and Present ; Little Pilgrims to the Holy Land ; and the 
Metallurgy of Iron and Steel, pp. 972, 1869. In connection with 
Dr. Coleman he published a large Map of Palestine. 

Frlderick Prime, Jr., A.M., was born in Philadelphia, in 
1846. His preparatoiy course was conducted at Northampton, 
Massachusetts, and in New York City. Graduating at Columbia 
College, in 1865, he spent a year in the School of Mines con- 
nected with that institution, and then continued his studies for 
thi'ee years and a half in the Royal Saxon School of Mines at 
Freiberg. In 1869 he entered actively on the duties of his pro- 
fession, being engaged that year on the Geological Survey of 
Ohio; he then became, for one year, an assistant in the Columbia 
College School of Mines, when, in 1870, he was elected Profes- 
sor of Mining and Metallurgy in Lafayette. He is a member of 



Members of the Faculty. 345 

various scientific societies, and the engineer for several coal and 
iron companies. He was one of the Judges at the Centennial 
Exhibition, and also acted as Secretary of the Group on Mining 
and Metallurgy. Beside the duties of his chair, he was also As- 
sistant State Geologist of Pennsylvania, in 1874-8, and issued 
the reports of that work for tlie Eastern district. In 1870 he 
published a translation from the German of Von Cotta's Treatise 
on Ore Deposit, 575 pages, octavo. 

*Rev. Frederick Augustus Rauch, Ph.D., was the son of a 
clergyman; born at Kirchbracht, Hesse-Darmstadt, i\Ay 27, 
1806; a student in the Universities of Marberg, G lessen and 
Heidelberg, graduating at the former in 1827. While quite 3'oung 
he became Professor of Philosophy in Giessen and Heidelberg, 
1829-31, and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He 
wrote De, Sox^hoclia Electra and De resurrectione mortuorum, 
which were published at the request of three of the universities 
of his native land ; and also two small works involving consider- 
able knowledge of the history of the Oriental languages, and a 
commentary on Goethe's Faust, W'hich received the praise of 
Goethe himself Political commotion led Dr. Rauch to leave 
Germany in 1831. After serving as Professor of German for a 
short time in Lafayette, he was called by the German Reformed 
church to a place in its two institutions at York, and in 1835 to 
become the first President of Marshall College, in which position 
he died, March 2, 1841. He was a man of varied and profound, 
acquisitions. His treatise on Psychology was issued in 1841, 
401 pages octavo, and some time after his decease a selection 
from his MSS. was made by President Gerhart, and published 
under the title. The Inner Life. 

RossiTER WoRTHiNGTON RAYMOND, Ph.D., was bom in Cin- 
cinnati, Ohio, April 27, 1840. He graduated at the Brooklyn 
Polytechnic Institute in 1858, and alterward spent three j-ears in 
study at Heidelberg, Munich and Freiberg. In 1864 he began 
practice in New York as a consulting engineer, and since 1867 
he has been editor of the American Journal of Mining (afterward 
the Engineering and Mining Journal); since 1868, United States 
Commissioner of Mining Statistics, and since 1870, lecturer on 
Economic Geology in Lafayette. He was elected a Vice Presi- 



346 The Men of Lafayette. 

dent of the American Institute of Mining Engineers in 1871, and 
President in 18T2. He has published annual reports of mining 
statistics from 1869 onward, several of which have been 
republished as separate works; "The Children's Week," a volume 
of short stories, 1871 ; "Brave Hearts," a novel, 1873, and "The 
Man in the Moon and otlier Stories," 1874. 

*Rev. John William Richards, D.D., son of Matthias and 
Maria Salome (Muhlenberg), was born at Reading, Pa., 
April 18, 1803. He received a complete classical training at the 
Academy of Rev. Dr. John Grier, at Reading; read theology 
with his cousin. Rev. Henry A. Muhlenberg, D.D., then pastor 
of Trinity Lutheran church in Reading; was licensed to preach 
by Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium, of Pennsylvania, Septem- 
ber 22, 1824; entered immediately upon the pastoral office, in 
which he continued until his death, efficiently and successfully. 
After serving congregations in Lancaster and Montgomery 
counties, he removed to Germantown (now in Philadelphia). 
From 1845-51 was pastor of St. John's Lutheran church in 
Easton. During this time he was connected with Lafayette Col- 
lege as Professor of the German Language from 1847 to 185 L 
Removed to Reading, Pa., and was pastor of Trinity church from 
1851 to 1854. Died January 24, 1854. Received the title of 
D.D., from Jefferson College, at Cannonsburg, 1851. He pub- 
lished various occasional discourses and addresses. Translated 
H. M. Muhlenberg's journal of a visit to the Southern churches 
for Lutheran Review. Left several works in preparation for the 
press at the time of his death — historical and devotional, trans- 
lations from the German ; was Secretary of the Lutheran Minis- 
terium of Pennsylvania from 1843 to 1846 ; President from 1850 
to 1858, and delegate to the General Synod in 1853. 

*Rev. Alfred Ryors, D.D., was born in Philadelphia, June 28, 
1812 ; being left an orphan at a very early age he was received 
into the family and select school of Rev. Robert Steel, D.D., at 
Abington, Pa. He graduated at Jefferson College, Pa., in 1835 ; 
the next year he was Tutor in Lafayette, and in May, 1836, he 
was elected Professor of Mathematics in the Ohio University ; he 
entered upon the duties of his professorship the next autumn, and 
remained until 1844 ; in tliat year he was called to the same chair 



Members of the Faculty. 347 

in the Indiana State University. In 1848 he was elected Presi- 
dent of the Ohio University and filled the office for four years ; 
in 1852 he resigned, and the following year became President of 
Indiana University ; at the end of a year he accepted the chair 
of Mathematics in Center College, Kentucky, where he remained 
until the time of his death, May 8, 1858. 

Rev. Alexander Scott, A.M., was born near Candor, Pa., 
June 16, 1826; he studied at Muskingum College, 1847-51; 
Senior year at Jefferson College, graduating in 1852; he taught 
in Texas, 1853-4 ; at Mount Holly, N. J , in 1855 ; in Musking- 
um College in 1856; Tutor in Lafayette in 1856-7; studied 
theology at Princeton three years, graduating in 1859. From 
1859-'62 he was a home missionary at Areata, California, and 
since 1862 he has been teaching in the West Philadelphia 
Academy. His address is 36 North Thirty-eighth street, West 
Philadelphia. 

Justus Mitchell Silliman, M.E., was born at New Canaan, 
Fairfield county. Conn., January 25, 1842. His preparatory 
education was obtained at the New Canaan Academy. During 
the late war he served three years in the army of the Potomac 
and of the South. From 1865-'70 he taught in the Troy Acade- 
my, Troy, N. Y. In 1867 he entered the Rensselaer Polytechnic 
Institute, and graduated in lb70, when he became Professor of 
Mining Engineering and Graphics in Lafayette. He is a Fellow 
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 
and a member of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 
In ^he proceedings of the former were published the results of 
his examination of the Bessemer Flame with colored glasses, and 
with the spectroscope. 

Rev. Oliver Starr St. John, A.M., was born in New York 
Cit}', Aug, 10,1814. His eai'ly education was received at the 
public schools of Danbury, Conn., and Andrews' Latin School at 
Cornwall. He graduated at Amherst College in 1838. After the 
usual course of study at East Winsdor (now Hartford) Theo- 
logical Institute, he was licensed to preach in August, 1841, by 
the Congregational Association, at Torrington, Conn. In April, 
1842, he was ordained and installed pastor of the Congregational 
Church at Elizabethport, N. J. In 1846 he became rector of the 



348 The Men of Lafayette, 

Academical Department and adjunct Professor of Languages in 
Lafayette. August, 1849, he was elected Borougli Superintend- 
ent of the schools of Easton, in which office his administration 
was signalized as a career of incessant and arduous labor. In 
1853 he left Easton to become pastor of the Presbyterian church 
at Manhattanville, N. Y., where he remained until 1857, since 
which time he has been engaged in preaching and in literary 
work. Since 1870 he has resided in Brooklyn, and for the past 
four years he has been Secretary of the Palestine Exploration 
Society. 

Theodore F. Tillinghast, C.E., was born at New Bedford, 
Mass., February 15, 1848. He entered the Massachusetts Insti- 
tute of Technology in 1866, and graduated in the Civil Engineer- 
ing Department in 1870. From 1870 to 1872 he was adjunct- 
Professor of Civil and Topographical Engineering in Lafayette. 
On the death of his father, in 1872, he returned to New Bed- 
ford, where he has since had charge of the extensive business in- 
terests in which his father had been engaged. 

Henry Francis Walling, C.E., was born at Burrillville, R. L, 
June 11,1825. His youth was spent in Providence, where he 
early became assistant librarian in the Atheneeum Library, during 
which time he studied mathematics and surveying. He then en- 
tered the office of S. B. Cushing, a civil engineer in Providence, 
with whom he became a partner, in 1846. In 1849 he commenced 
topographical work, and has published atlases containing full 
maps and scientific descriptions of most of the Northern States 
and the Dominion of Canada. His papers, read before the 
American Association and the American Society of Civil En- 
gineers, have been published in their proceedings. He was the 
first incumbent of the chair of Civil and Topographical Engineer- 
ing in Lafayette, 1867-'70. In 1878 he was employed by the 
superintendent of the U. S. Coast Survey to gather information 
and to report in regard to the evidences as to the stability of the 
earth's crust. He is at present engaged in Ohio, having his office 
at Marietta. His permanent address is Cambridge, Mass. 

♦David Prentice Yeomans, M.D — Born at Stamford, N. Y., 
January 25, 1812 ; graduated at Williams College in 1837 ; from 
1841 to 1845 he was Piincipal of the Academical Department, 



Members of the Faculty. 349 

and Professor of Chemistry in Lafayette; in 1846 he went to 
Canada and studied medicine with his uncle, at McGill College, 
Montreal. He settled in Odessa, a village near Kingston, where 
he remained in the successful practice of medicine until his death, 
August 13, 1860, aged 47. Atone time he was Superintendent 
of public instruction for the ProA'ince. 

*Rev. Charles W. Nassau, D.D. — A notice of this beloved 
Professor is found on page 22 of Prof. Owen's Historical Sketches. 
This last survivor of the ex-Presidents of the college died at 
Trenton, August 6, 1878. A memorial sermon and eulogy was 
preached in the college chapel, by President Cattell on the first 
Sabbath of the ensuing term, and published in the Lafayette 
College Journal for October. 




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PROCEEDINGS AT THE DEDICATION OF 

PARDEE HALL. 



The following report of the general proceedings at the dedica- 
tion of Pardee Hall, in 1 8*73, is taken from the Easton Daily Free 
Press^ of October 22. For a full description of the building the 
reader is referred to page 34 of Prof. Owen's Historical Sketches : 

The vicinity of the college 3'esterday morning presented a busy 
scene. Some preparations were yet to be completed about the 
new building. At an early hour visitors began to arrive, and 
strange faces were seen in every pai't of the grounds. The stud- 
ents felt the importance of the occasion, and determined that the 
day should not lack in being honored through any want of enthu- 
siasm on their part. At 10 o'clock the college bell was rung, 
and the different bodies who were to take part in the procession 
formed in the neighborhood of the chapel. They were gay in the 
colors of their respective classes and appropriate badges, and im- 
patiently awaited the time when the procession should move. The 
Synod of Philadelphia, which had left Philadelphia early in 
the morning in a special train, arrived about 10 o'clock, and in a 
body marched up College Hill. The trains on the New Jersey 
railroads also brought large numbers of the members of the 
Synod of New Jersey, who at once proceeded to the grounds of 
the college. Many distinguished men and scholars, representa. 
tives of other institutions, were present. 

The procession was at last formed under the direction of Pro- 
fessor Youngman, the college marshal, and headed by a band of 
music, moved toward the new building. It was composed as 
follows : 

The Officers of the college classes as escort. 

The Orator of the day with the President of the faculty. 

The Governor of Pennsylvania with other officials. 

The present and former Trustees of the college with Trustees of other colleges 

The present and former members of the Faculty, with representatives from 
sister institutions. 



352 The Men of Lafayette. 

The Clergy and other specially invited guests, including I he American Institute 
of Mining Engineers. 

Alumni in order of their graduation with former students of the college who 
did not take their degrees. 

Citizens of Easton. 

Undergraduates of the college. 

A dense crowd had already gathered about Pardee Hall. The 
different floors were thronged with crowds of visitors, and the 
galleries which had been thrown open to the public at 10 o'clock 
were already completely filled, the ladies occupying a majority of 
the seats. When the procession reached the building, it parted 
right and left up the staircases on either side of the corridor, and 
thus entered ihe auditorium. It was not long before the large 
room was densely crowded. The bands of music were stationed 
in the music gallery, directly over the platform, and discoursed 
sweet strains at different stages of the proceedings. A large 
platform had been erected in the front, and on this were seated 
President Cattell, Ex-Governor Pollock, Mr. Pardee, Governor 
Hartranft, a number of the trustees of the college, and distin- 
guished visitors from abroad. Among these were President 
Barnard, of Columbia College ; Rev. Dr. McGill, of Princeton 
Theological Seminary ; Selden T. Scranton, of Oxford, N. J. ; 
President Coppee, of Lehigh University ; Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, 
of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ; Prof. Mayer, of 
Stevens Institute, Hoboken ; Prof. Johnson, of Yale ; Prof. Hill- 
man, of Dickinson ; President Muhlenberg ; George Musgrave, 
D.D., LL.D. ; Rev. J, S. Woodside, from India ; Rev. Dr. Samuel 
Miller, moderator of the Synod of New Jersey ; Rev. Dr. W. O. 
Johnstone ; and President Magill, of Swarthmore. 

The exercises began with an invocation by President Cattell, 
who afterward introduced to the audience the orator of the day, 
Professor Rossiter W. Raymond, a member of the college faculty. 
United States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, and president 
of the American Institute of Mining Engineers. 

At the conclusion of Professor Raymond's eloquent address, 
which was listened to with great interest on the part of those 
present and interrupted by frequent bursts of applause. Professor 
Barlow, in whose charge the preparations for the collation had 
been placed, announced that the tables had been spread in the 
large laboratories on the fourth and fifth floors of the building. 



Dedication of Pardee Hall. 353 

There was room for six hundred, and that number would be ad- 
mitted to the rooms in the order of the procession, while the 
others would be served at successive tables. 

The spacious laboratories had been turned into banqueting 
halls, and long lines of tables groaned beneath the substantial 
viands provided. Beautiful bouquets of flowers adorned the 
rooms. 

The streets of Easton had presented a busy spectacle all the 
morning. The different trains brought hundreds of visitors, and 
a constant stream of people flowed toward College Hill. Bands 
of music paraded the streets, stopping often before the Free Press 
office to tender the compliment of a serenade. In the afternoon 
business was entirely suspended. Every store was closed, the 
noise of the factory had ceased, quiet brooded over the work- 
shop. The merchant had left his counter, the lawyer had thrown 
aside his brief, and all united to honor the day. There has not 
been an occasion for years in which our citizens have joined with 
such universal intei-est. 

Soon after 1 o'clock the difierent organizations, which were to 
take part in the parade of the afternoon, were moving through 
the streets of the town. All the civic societies were represented, 
and South Easton and Phillipsburg sent their organizations. 
Under the direction of the Chief Marshal, George M. Reeder, 
Esq., the line was formed on South Third street, the right resting 
on Centre Square. It moved in the following order : 

Chief Marshal, George M. Reeder, with Assistant Marshals, Messrs. Joseph S. 

Osterstock, J. N. Thatcher, John Bacon, and Adam Drinkhouse, 

mounted on gayly caparisoned steeds. 

Platoon of police. 

Easton Cornet Band. 

Easton Grays, under command of Captain Frank Reeder. 

Members of Fifty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers, under command of Captain 

Daniel L. Nicholas. 

Bell Post, G. A. R., under command of Samuel S. Lesher, S. V. C. 

Columbia Council, O. U. A. M., John M. Phillips, Marshal. 

Excelsior Council, Jr. O. U. A. M., Howard Bitters, Marshal. 

Bath Cornet Band. 

Fatherland Lodge, I. O. O. F., Joseph Flad, Marshal. 

Peace and Plenty, Lehicton, and Elon Lodges, I. O. O. F., A. Laubach, Marshal. 

Washington Camp, P. O. S. of A., G. Heller, Marshal. 

Druids of Easton, H. Hoffmier, Marshal. 

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354 The Men of Lafayette. 

Knights of Pythias of Easton, J. Deichman, Marshal. 

Teedyuscung Tribe, I. O. of R. M., of Phillipsburg, S. Vanorman, Marshal. 

Saranac Tribe, I. O. of R. M., of Easton, T. Coyle, Marshal. 

Emerald Society, M. J. Levan, Marshal. 

German Mechanics, John Newbrand, Marshal. 

Governor John F. Hartranft, Auditor-General Harrison Allen, and Chief Burgress 

A. B. Howell, in a carriage drawn by four horses, 

Nazareth Band. 

Town Councils of Easton, South Easton and Phillipsburg. 

School Board of Easton. 

Easton High School. 

Ringgold Band, of Reading. 

Chief Engineer James Ward and assistants. 

Humane Fire Company, No. i, with carriage. 

Washington Fire Company, No. 3, with steamer drawn by four horses. 

Keystone Fire Company, No. 5, with steamer drawn by four horses. 

Lafayette Fire Company, No. 6, with carriage. 

Citizens in carriages. 

The procession was the most imposing that has appeared in 
the streets of Easton for years. It was over a mile in length, 
and, gay with flags and banners, was a chief feature of the out- 
ward display of the day. The governor of Pennsylvania was 
greeted with cheers along the route of the parade. The pupils of 
the High School carried a banner especially gotten up for the oc- 
casion. The splendid flag of Excelsior Council attracted atten- 
tion. The Fire Department, with engines and carriages, present- 
ed a fine appearance. 

The procession moved over a short route through the streets of 
Easton, as had been previously announced, and then marched 
over the Bushkill bridge and up the road to the college grounds. 

Over the gnte leading into the college grounds, the Lafayette 
Fire Company had erected an arch trimmed with evergreens and 
flowers. It bore in large letters, the names 

LAFAYETTE — PARDEE. 

Upon the bases on which it rested were the words, 

JUNKIN, 1832. CATTELL, 1873. 

Some verses of Scripture wei'e inscribed on the keystone of the 
arch, the Itth, 18th and 19th of the sixth chapter of I Timothy. 
All the afternoon crowds of people had been pouring up Col- 
lege Hill. They crowded Jenks' Hall, they filled the new build- 
ing, and were scattered over the campus. The crowd around 



Dedication of Pardee Hall. 355 

Pardee Hall was numbered by thousands. A procession had 
been formed at the College Chapel of the undergraduates, tlie 
Faculty and the Trustees of the college. At its iiead, side by 
side, walked President Cattell and Mr. Pardee. It moved toward 
the entrance of the college grounds, where it met the procession 
from town, and escorted it through the college grounds. The 
procession moved around Pardee Hall, and halted at the front of 
the building. President Cattell, Mr. Pardee and the distinguished 
guests advanced to the elevated plateau immediatel}- in front of 
the entrance, while the procession from town passed in review. 
An immense assemblage had now gathered about the front of the 
building. The balconies and windows of the edifice were filled 
with ladies and gentlemen, as were also those of the adjoining 
college buildings. 

As soon as quiet was restored, the simple ceremonies of de- 
livering over tiie building into the possession of the college 
authorities began. Mr. Pardee, in a modest address, handed over 
the keys to President Cattell. He said : 

The completion of this building makes it my very pleasant duty, on behalf of 
the Building Committee, and myself as the donor, to formally present it to you, 
as the representative of the Trustees and Faculty of Lafayette. The building 
itself speaks of the skill and taste of the architect, the faithfulness of the builder, 
and the care with which it has been supervised during its erection. Our respon- 
sibilities have not been small; but on you, sir, and on the students who shall go 
out, year by year, from these halls, rests a far larger responsibility — the reputation 
of the institution. But, looking to the future by the light of the past, we rest 
the responsibility on you with no misgiving. I have the honor, sir, of now pre- 
senting you with the keys of the hall. 

After the tumultuous cheering that greeted Mr. Pardee had 
ceased, President Cattell responded as follows : 

In receiving from you the keys of the building for the scientific department of 
the college which you have so munificently endowed, I can find no words ade- 
quate to express my own thanks, or the thanks of my colleagues in the faculty, 
for this grand addition to their means of attractive and thorough teaching and of 
their own scientific researches, or the thanks of the trustees and patrons and 
friends of education who see in such a large and unselfish use of wealth, for the 
benefit of mankind, the noblest use to which it can be applied. And I know you, 
sir, so well, that I am sure the less I say to you on an occasion so public, the 
better you will be pleased. I shall, therefore, only assure you that our hearts are 
full of gratitude for your munificent gift and for your wise and judicious counsels, 
under which the college has grown and prospered, and that we and our children 



356 The Men of Lafayette. 

will not cease to cherish and honor your memory, and that our heartfelt prayer 
to the Giver of every good and perfect gift is for His richest blessings to rest 
ever upon you and yours. 

The whole assembly, with one voice, then united in singing 
the Doxology, " Praise God, from whom all blessings flow." 
When the last echo of the grand old hymn had died away upon 
the air, the venerable Dr. Coleman, professor of Latin in the col- 
lege, invoked the blessing of God upon the institution and the 
man who had so munificently endowed it. 

Ex-Governor Pollock then introduced Governor Hartranft, who 
was greeted with loud cheers. The governor thought that this 
was a jDroud day for Easton and the college. It was a proud day 
for him to be present and see the keys handed over by his liberal- 
hearted friend, Mr. Pardee, to the president of the college. He 
had not had the pleasure of close association with the college, 
but from what he had seen of President Cattell, his executive 
ability, his energy and his enterprise, he was satisfied that the 
magnificent gift of Mr. Pardee had fallen into good hands. He 
spoke at length of the necessity of a scientific education. He 
advised young men not to go forward too rapidly in life, and to 
select their professions with care. If there were more men in 
active life of the character of Mr. Pardee the world would be 
better. The donor of the hall had unconsciously erected a mon- 
ument to himself which would endure throughout time. 

The next speaker was Edward H. Green, Esq., president of 
the borough council of Easton, who was warmly greeted. He 
said he was not a public speaker, and if he were, he would not 
detain the vast assemblage at this time with any extended re- 
marks. He would simply say that, on behalt of the citizens of 
Easton, he would congratulate the college on the princely gift 
they had received that day from Mr. Pardee. 

He was followed by Major A. B. Howell, cliief burgess of 
Easton. He said that to him this was a double pleasure. He felt 
a proud interest in the occasion, both as a graduate of the insti- 
tution and as a citizen of Easton. He rejoiced that the college 
had been founded in our midst, not simply on account of the ma- 
terial advantages, but for the educational, literary and religious 
influences that flowed from her. The college held out before all 
men the maxim, "The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wis- 
dom." We dedicate this building to-day. We hope that these 



Dedication of Pardee Hall. 35 1 

halls may send forth men who, by their living and dying, may 
prove that this trust was committed to a woi'thy charge. (Great 
applause.) 

Mr. Edward F. Stewart, president of the Easton board of con- 
trol, next appeared before the audience. He stood here as a re- 
presentative of the college, being an early graduate. But he re- 
presented more directly the public school system. It had been 
said that there was a connection between the public school system 
and the college. He thought that this was so. In a country 
like this it was essential that every man should at least have the 
elements of an education. A great republic could only be sus- 
tained by the intelligence of its people. The workman might not 
be better qualified to drive the plow or wield the hammer, but 
he would represent manhood. (Continued cheering.) 

A brief and stirring address followed from Ex-Governor Pol- 
lock, who said that he was never so inspired before to battle in 
the cause of education as he had been to-day. 

Several speakers followed in short, enthusiastic addresses, 
among whom were Hon. J. P. Wickersham, LL.D., superintend- 
ent of public instruction in Pennsylvania; the Rev. Dr. John 
Harris Jones, president of Treviea College, South Wales, and 
Rev. Dr. Robert Knox, of Belfast, Ireland, delegates to the 
Evangelical Alliance recently held in New York; and Hon. B. 
G. Northrup, secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education. 
Hon. Heister Clymer, of Reading, Pa., made a brief but eloquent 
address. Rev. Dr. Charles S. Robinson, of New York, spoke in 
his usual felicitous manner. Dr. A. J. Woeikof, secretary of the 
Meteorological Committee of the Imperial Geographical Society 
of Russia, who had come to the college to visit the lamented Dr. 
Coffin, gave his tribute to the extended learning and great use- 
fulness of Lafayette's deceased professor of mathematics and 
astronomy. 

In introducing Ashbel Welch, of New Jersey, the distinguished 
civil engineer, and member of the board of examiners for the 
Pardee Scientific Department (who made a short but excellent 
address), President Cattell gave a brief historical sketch. He 
said that one da}^ about forty years ago, a young lad was plow- 
ing in his father's fields in Rensselaer county, in New York, 
when he received a letter. He opened it, and found the oflfer of 



358 The Men of Lafayette. 

a position as rodman, down in New Jersey, with Mr. Welsh. He 
left home to talie it the very next day, bringing with him the 
fortunes of Lafayette! He (Ario Pardee) came to this valley 
about the time the college was started. The speaker told of the 
unostentatious way in which the gift of $20,000 was put in his 
hands in 1864, which was followed by still larger suras, from 
time to time, as successive additions were made to the Scientific 
Department, until the amount given by Mr. Pardee was nearly 
half a million. He also spoke of his valuable service as a trustee, 
in which capacity he had shown great delicacy in always refrain- 
ing from giving any sign of the great indebtedness of the institu- 
tion to him. He closed with the remark that his heart was too 
full to speak of the respect and love he felt for him. 

Rev. E. Ferrier, president of the Alumni Society, was called 
upon to respond for the Alumni of Lafayette, President Gilman, 
of the University of California, for the educational institutions of 
the Pacific coast ; and for the American Listitute of Mining En- 
gineers, David Thomas, of Catasauqua, its first President and the 
Nestor of practical science in the Lehigh Valley. 

The long metre doxology was sung, and at dusk the exercises 
were closed with the benediction by Rev. Dr. Hunt. 



HISTORICAL SKETCHES 



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LAFAYETTE COLLEGE, 



IIIS'IOkU.AL SKi;i (JIJ^S 



l.AFAYHTTi; COI.IJiGI', 



WJ JJl AN A^:COUNT OF I'lS J'RKSKN'l OJ'^iANI- 

ZA'JJON a;,j> courses OFS'i(;i;y. 



W. B. OWEN, A. ivi.. 

AUjUTUt Pro/, o/ Ancient /.uny.uaj(ei, Ln/ayetl€ (JolU^e. 



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J^xtrart front the Minutes of the Trustees of Lafayetie College, 
January 26, 1876. 

The United States Bureau of Education, Having requested the 
Colleges of the United States to prepare, during the Centennial 
Year, sketches of their history, with an account of their present 
organization, courses of study and other matters of interest to the 
friends of education : Resolved, that Prof. W. B. Owen be requested 
to prepare such sketches, &c., of this Institution, and that the same 
be published under the direction of the Prudential Committee. 



HISTORICAL SKETCHES 



OF 



LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



The early history of Lafayette College, though within the memory 
of many persons yet living, seems already to her younger sons to 
belong to the olden times. We must go back more than fifty years 
to find the humble beginnings of what we now see. Easton was 
then a thriving town of about twenty-five hundred inhabitants, 
and was quite remarkable in at least two respects, the marvellous 
beauty of the scenery, of which I shall have occasion to speak 
again, and the culture and literary taste that characterized its society. 
Its Clergy were conspicuous for scholarly attainments. The Bar 
was known all over the State for the learning and ability of its 
members. It was also the home of many persons distinguished in 
public life, such as George Taylor, one of the signers of the Dec- 
laration of Independence; George Wolf, Governor of Pennsyl- 
vania; Samuel Sitgreaves, U. S. Commissioner to Great Britain 
under President Adams ; James M. Porter, Secretary of War under 
President Tyler; Governor A. H. Reeder ; Richard Brodhead, 
U. S. Senator, &c. The intercourse of such able and scholarly 
men was the expression of their intellectual life and taste, as well as 
of their social instincts, and it seems natural that the thought 
should arise in their minds of making Easton a seat of learning by 
founding an Institution for the higher education. 

FIRST ORGANIZED MOVEMENT. 

The first organized movement to establish a College, was a meeting 
held on the evening of December 27th, 1824, at White's Hotel, in 
the N. E. Corner of the Public Square. Due notice had been given, 

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and a large number of the public-spirited citizens came together to 
talk the matter over. Col. Thomas McKeen* presided at the 
meeting. After full discussion it was unanimously voted, "That it 
is expedient to establish at this place an institution of learning in 
which the dead languages and the various branches of education 
and science usually taught in colleges, together with the French 
and German languages, civil and military engineering, and military 
tactics shall be taught." The introduction of the military feature 
was not unnatural to these men about whom the memory of the old 
wars still clung: the second war with Great Britain was not further 
from them than the late civil war is from us, and these founders of 
the new institution of learning had been taught, as the paper adopted 
at the meeting declares, that "a freeman's arm can best defend a 
freeman's home," and that the well-instructed citizen should not 
only know his rights but should also know how to defend them. 

And then the question arose about a name for the new institution. 
It will be remembered that General Lafayette had landed in New 
York City on the Sixteenth of August previous, on his last visit to 
the country he had so nobly served. His progress throughout the 
land was marked by one continued ovation, and these citizens of 
Pennsylvania not unmindful of the wounds he had received on her 
soil, resolved, " That as a testimony of respect for the talents, vir- 
tues and signal service of General Lafayette in the great cause of 
freedom, the said institution be named Lafayette College." 

That these men were in earnest in this matter and were fully 
resolved to carry into immediate execution the project they had 
formed, is seen in the last of their resolutions, viz. : "That James 
M. Porter,f Joel Jones, | and Jacob Wagner, || be a committee to 

*Col. McKeen was of Scotch descent, but born in the North of Ireland on the 
27th of June, 1763. He came to America in his twentieth year, and settling in 
the vicinity of Easton, engaged first in teaching and afterwards in mercantile 
pursuits. In 1815 he accepted the Cashiership of the Easton Bank, of which 
he became President at the death of Mr. Samuel Sitgreaves in 1826. The latter 
position he held till 1851. Eminent in business circles, Col. McKeen was also 
a leading man in many enterprises that bespeak the large heart and liberal mind 
of the Christian citizen. He was for many years Treasurer of the Board of 
Trustees of Lafayette College, and one of the most liberal of its early friends. 
He died in 1858, in his nirtety-sixth year. 

•}• James Madison Porter, to whom more than to any one person, Lafayette 
College owes its origin, was born near Norristown, Pa., January 6th, 1793. His 
early education was carefully conducted up to his preparation for the junior class. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 5 

draft a memorial to the Legislature for a charter of incorporation, 
and for legislative aid." 

THE VIEWS OF THE FOUNDERS. 

These gentlemen accordingly prepared a memorial to the Legis- 
ature in which they briefly set forth the history of the movement, 
and develop more at length their plans. It was not their design 

with the intention of entering the College of New Jersey, at Princeton. This 
purpose, however, he abandoned, and read law in Reading, Pa., with his 
brother, then President Judge of the Third District, and was admitted to the bar 
April 23d, 1813. He first located in Philadelphia, remaining till 1818, after 
which, until his death, he resided at Easton. In a few years he stood at the 
head of the bar in legal and forensic ability, although still comparatively a 
young man. In 1837-38 he was one of the foremost members of the conven- 
tion for revising the Constitution of Pennsylvania. He was President Judge of 
the Twelfth Judicial District from June, 1S39, till July, 1840. Under President 
Tyler's administration, he was for some time a member of his Cabinet as Secre- 
tary of War. In 1849 he was elected a member of the State Legislature. In 
spring of 1853 he was elected President Judge of the Twenty-second District, 
but on account of ill health he was obliged to resign early in 1S55. From this 
time he pursued the practice of law until his death, November nth, 1862. In 
1843 he received from Marshall College the degree of Doctor of Laws. He 
was for twenty-five years President of the Board of Trustees of Lafayette Col- 
lege, and for many years, also, Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy. 
His reputation as a man of great learning and eminent legal ability drew many 
young men whose names appear in the catalogues of that period as students of law. 

J Hon. Joel Jones, LL.D., was a native of Connecticut, born in Coventry, 
October 26th, 1795. ^^ the age of fifteen he went to Hebron and engaged in 
business with his uncle. It soon became evident, however, that this mode of 
life was not suited to his intellectual tastes and aspirations. In the midst of his 
work he prepared for Yale, where he was admitted to the Freshman class in 
1813. After graduating with high honor, he commenced the study of law with 
the late Judge Bristol of New Haven, and afterwards finished at the Law School 
in Litchfield. After the completion of his studies, he resided for a short time in 
Wilkes-Barre, Pa., whence he removed, in 1822, to Easton. He rose rapidly at 
the bar, acquiring a wide reputation for learning and ability. He was appointed 
by Governor Wolf one of the three Commissioners to revise the laws of Penn- 
sylvania. In 1834 he removed to Philadelphia, and became President Judge of 
one of the city Courts. From this post he was called to the Presidency of 
Girard College, and was afterwards elected Mayor of the city of Philadelphia. 
He died February 3d, 1S60. 

Judge Jones was a man of fervent piety and of remarkable attainments in 
various fields of learning, in theology and biblical criticism, in languages Orien- 
tal, ancient and modern, as well as in jurisprudence. 

II Jacob Wagner, son of Judge Daniel Wagner, one of the early settlers of the 



6 SKl-riCHRS OK 'I'HE 

that ihc tartical parts of a military education should curtail the 
usual course of College studies, but on the contrary, by thus pro- 
viding judicious and healtiiful modes of spending leisure, they, 
hoped to inc-.rease the efficiency of the literary departments. 

The original scheme contemplated a preparatory course, that 
students might be received with no other previous qualifications than 
the rudiments of an'English education ; the whole course to require 
seven years, which however they hoped to shorten by improved 
methods of instruction. 

In reference to the department of l>anguage and Literature, their 
words are so suggestive as containing the ])rophecy if not the germ 
of the present course in English studies, (of which I shall speak at 
lengtli hereafter,) that the following sentences possess a peculiar 
interest : 

''An adilitioii will be made to the lanjjuage course usually adopted. In this 
l)r:mcli, sludcnls toiniuouly limit their attention to the dead languages. This is to be 
rei^rctlcd. The living languages certainly have some claims to attention which the 
dead liave not. r.ulicularly is it to be regretted that after acquiring the Latin, 
the Romanic dialects of moilcrn Europe should not receive that small portion of 
time wliich is necessary to ac(|uire them, But the langu.agc most neglected in our 
seminaiiesoflearning is the English. It is,wethink,oneof the follies of the learned 
to expend time and toil and money in the minute investigation of the languages of 
other tiuu's and other peoi)lc, at the expense of omitting the equally curious and 
more useful investigation of their own. The Anglo-Saxon, the German, the 
Danish, the Swedish, &c., ought long since to have been made a part of the 
education of our youth. Lest we should be thought to prescribe a course im- 
practicable vvilhin a reasonable time, we will add that the period usually 
allotted to the L.alin and Greek merely, would be, under a proper method of 
instruction, amply sufficient for the acquirement of all we have mentioned." 

At that time the only chartered colleges in Pennsylvania, east of 
the AUeghanies, were the University at Philadelphia, and Dick- 
inson College at Carlisle. The latter, (founded 1783,) had been 
comjjelled by financial embarrassment to close its doors. The 
former, by reason of the greater temptations of the city as well as 



place, was a native of Easton, born in 1799. Though a young man at the time 
of the founding of the College, he was made a member of the Board of Trustees, 
and for many years took a prominent part in their deliberations and labors. He 
was :in influential and public-spirited citizen, whose culture and learning no 
less than his eminent soci.al and business qualities contributed to give him a 
high position in the community. Those who knew liim si)eak with special 
warmth of his attainments in literature and of his studies in mineralogy and 
botany, in which sciences he made valuable collections. He died in 1858. 



HISTORY OK LAFAYSTTE COLLEGE. 7 

the greater cost of living, was objectionable to remote rural sec* 
tions ; and it was felt to be a serious hindrance to the cause of 
liberal education, that young men must be sent to the distant 
Colleges of other States. Ease of access from those parts of the 
State which the College was originally designed to benefit, the 
abundance and cheapness of the means of living, together with the 
health fulness of the situation and its excellence as a field for 
botanical and mineralogical research, were the main points favor- 
able to the location at Easton.* 

THE CHARTER GRANTED. 

The Legislature granted the charterf March 9th, 1826. It was 
signed by Joseph Ritner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, 
Alexander Mahon, Speaker of the Senate, and J. A. Shultze, 
Governor. The charter vested thirty-five persons therein named,! 

* Fifty years of change and development have abundantly proved the wisdom 
of this choice. Lafayette now receives students from all over the Union 
iastead of from a limited portion of Pennsylvania; but the location could not 
be changed for the better, even in view of this wider sphere of patronage. 
Easton is situated at the confluence of the Delaware and I^high Rivers, toward 
the northern terminus of the Cumberland Valley, in a region so fertile and 
beautiful, so rich and productive in varied resources that it may well be called 
the garden of the Atlantic slope. It has become an important point on the great 
highways of travel between New York and the West and North-west. Iastead 
of the two days' journey by stage to New York, when theO^Uege was chartered, 
there are now three different lines of railroads between the two cities, aggregat- 
ing fifteen daily trains, and the " express " time, less than three hours. There 
are now nine daily trains to Philadelphia — time by the express, two hours and a 
quarter. The railroad communication with the West and North west is also most 
ample ; so that for ease of access from every part of the country the place is all 
that can be desired. The Lehigh, in its upper course, winds its way among 
hills stored full of coal, iron and slate, and the more recent development of 
these resources has made the city an industrial center, presenting rare facilities 
for the pursuit of technical and practical branches which are now embraced in 
the courses of study at the College. 

f Not, however, without opposition. The project to establish " another college" 
did not commend itself to all the .Solons of that day. In Henry's history of the 
Lehigh Valley it is stated that among others opposing the charter of Lafayette 
College was Mr. Herster, who stoutly objected to the study of the dead lan- 
guages, " which," said he, " adds no more to scientific knowledge than the 
croaking of frogs." 

J The Charter Trustees were Robert Patterson, John Hare Powel, Peter A. 
Browne, Andrew M. Prevost, Benjamin Tilghman, Silas E. Wier, and John M. 



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with the usual powers of a College, and to fill vacancies in their 
board by election. It provided, "that there shall be forever 
maintained in the said College, a Professorship of the German 
Language, and in addition to the usual course of collegiate studies, 
there shall be taught in and at the said institution, military science 
and tactics, and civil and military engineering." 

THE COLLEGE ORGANIZED. 

The Board of Trustees met for organization as directed in the 
charter, May 15th, 1826. James M. Porter was elected President, 
which position he held for twenty-five years, Joel Jones, Secretary, 
and Thomas McKeen, Treasurer. A committee was appointed to 
prepare and publish an exposition of the plan and purposes of the 
institution, and the Board at once, through its committees, entered 
upon measures to secure a President and Faculty, and to raise funds 
for the erection of suitable buildings, and for the purchase of 
apparatus, library, etc. 

But their success was far from encouraging. The Legislature 
had not voted them the desired aid, and it must be remembered 
that the region was comparatively new, and the people upon whom 
they mainly depended for contributions were too busy working up 
its material resources to give much attention to intellectual improve- 
ment. But the fathers of Lafayette never gave up. This indeed 
is the heroic element in the labors of those who founded the 
College — their unwavering faith in the nobility and ultimate success 
of their Avork. 

In August, 1827, the Trustees made overtures to "The American 
Classical and Military Lyceum" at Mount Airy, to remove the 
Institution to Easton and conduct its operations under the new 
charter. They assured the gentlemen in charge of that Institution 
that Lafayette College "should ultimately be inferior to none in 



Scott, of the city of Philadelphia; Samuel Sitgreaves, Thomas McKeen, Peter 
Miller, Philip Mixsell, Jacob Weygandt, Jr., John Bowes, James M. Porter, 
Christian J. Hutter, Jacob "Wagner, George M. Barnet, John Carey, William 
Shouse, Peter Ihrie, Jr., J. Worman, Joel Jones, J. R. Latimore, Thomas J. 
Rogers, Joseph K. Swift, George G. Howell, Peter S. Michler, Jesse M. Howell, 
Philip H. Mattes, George Hess, Jr., Jacob Kerr, George Weber, and Anthony 
McCoy, of the county of Northampton ; Walter C. Livingston, of the county of 
Lehigh ; and William Long, of the county of Bucks, 



HISTORY OK LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 9 

our country," and they dwelt with enthusiasm upon its prospects, 
"the surrounding country so populous, picturesque, fertile and 
salubrious ; so rich in mineral and botanical productions ; the 
necessaries of life so abundant and cheap;" but the trustees of the 
American Classical and Military Lyceum replied by the next mail, 
recounting greater and more substantial advantages already secured 
by them and therefore '* declined to abandon such advantages for 
mere expectations at any other place." 

ELECTION OF PRESIDENT. 

It was not until the next year that the Trustees made the first 
formal offer of the Presidency. In February, 1828, Professor List 
of Reading was elected President of Lafayette College. This 
eminent scholar responded promptly, " I would not hesitate to con- 
nect myself with the Institution immediately, had I not entered 
into various engagements which make it impossible for me to do so." 
He recommends, however, in the strongest terms. Dr. Jaeger,* who 
had recently arrived from Germany, and negotiations were accor- 
dingly entered into with him, but without success. 

In January, 1832, Dr. John Grayf named to the committee Rev. 
George Junkin, A.M., J "as a gentleman eminently qualified to take 
charge of the institution." Mr. Junkin at that time had charge 

* Benedict Jaeger, subsequently Professor at Princeton College. 

j- Rev. John Gray, D. D., was born in the county of Monaghan, Ireland, in 
December, 1798. He pursued his studies at the University of Glasgow, and 
subsequently studied theology under the distinguished Dr. John Dick. In 1820 
he came to America, and for some time preached in the province of New Bruns- 
wick; he came to Easton in 1822, and became pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church, and continued to minister to this congregation till 1867— a period of 
nearly forty-five years. He died January 12th, 1868. Dr. Gray was a warm 
friend of the College, and for thirteen years served as a trustee. He was an 
able theologian and a scholar of varied culture. 

I Rev. George Junkin. D. D., LL.D., son of Joseph Junkin, was born in 
Cumberland county, Pennsylvania, November 1st, 1790. His earliest years were 
spent on his father's farm, where, by close application to study in the intervals of 
work, he prepared for college. He graduated at Jefferson College in 1813. 
After studying theology privately for some time, he entered the Theological 
Seminary of the Associate Reformed Church, in New York City. Having 
completed his theological course, he was licensed to preach by the Presbytery 
of Monongahela, September 13th, 1816. He was soon called to the charge of the 
United Congregations of Milton and McEwensville, in Pennsylvania, where he 



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of the "Manual Labor Academy of Pennsylvania," situated at 
Germantown, The Trustees invited him to come to Easton, 
examine the charter of the College, its location and prospects. He 
came accordingly, had an interview with the committee and made 
the preliminary examinations and inquiries. 

On the 6th of February, 1832, the Board appointed Mr. Junkin 
President of the College, which appointment he agreed to accept 
if the tnilitary requisition of the charter could be dispensed with. 
This was done by a supplement passed by the Legislature, April 7th, 
1832. 

THE SITE UPON THE SOUTH BANK OF THE LEHIGH. 

The Trustees then leased for two years the farm and buildings 
belonging to Christopher Midler, for the purposes of the College, 

remained about eleven years. In 1830 he became Principal of the Manual 
Labor Academy, at Germantown, one of the first institutions of the kind to go into 
operation in the United States — the Fellenberg Academy, in Massachusetts, 
being started about the same time and on the same plan by Prof. James H. Coffin, 
afterward an associate of Dr. Junkin in Lafayette College. Two years later he 
became the first President of Lafayette College. In 184I he accepted the 
Presidency of Miami University, Ohio, remaining three years, when he again 
returned to Easton. He was Moderator of the General Assembly in 1844. ^^ 
the fall of 1848 he again left his ''lovely Lafayette," to accept the position of 
President of Washington College, (now Washington and Lee University,) Virginia. 
Here he .remained until May, 1861, when he resigned the Presidency and 
removed to Philadelphia. He was now seventy-one years of age, but with 
force unabated he filled up his remaining days with an activity almost past 
belief. Among the soldiers, in camp, field and hospital, as a colporteur, A 
preacher and a writer, he worked on with a marvellous zeal and vigor. He 
died May 20th, 1868. 

Dr. Junkin was a man of acknowledged ability, and profoundly learned, 
especially in theology and metaphysics. These were his favorite pursuits, in 
which he excelled both as a student and as a teacher. Men of eminence in 
Church and State, who sat at his feet during their educational career, give their 
cheerful testimony to his magnetic power over his students, and to his enthusiasm 
as well as his profound learning in the subjects which he taught. Of his powers, 
however, I cannot more fitly speak than in the words of Dr. Breed ; " The mind 
of Dr. Junkin well harmonized with the material home in which it lodged — 
massive compact and strong. To say that he was a man of talents — of talents 
of a very high order — is to say the truth, but only a part of the truth. He was 
a man of genius — with all the force, fire and originality of true genius." Of 
his qualities of heart Dr. Knox, with equal truth, says: "A man of greatef 
magnanimity, of truer, deeper, tenderer affections, I do not believe ever lived."^ 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. II 

and to enable the President to conduct its operations on the manual 
labor principle. Tne premises consisted of about sixty acres of 
land and ordinary farm buildings, situated south of the Lehigh 
River, directly opposite the borough. 

In March, President Junkin came to Easton and began the work 
of fitting up the College premises. In this he was aided by several 
of the young men who had come with him from Germantown, and 
the work was so rapidly pushed that the regular exercises of the 
College began May 9th, 1832. The session opened with forty-three 
students, most of whom came with President Junkin. The number 
soon increased to fifty-six, and there were also during the year 
eleven "day scholars," making in all sixty-seven students in atten- 
dance during the first College year at Lafayette. The first term 
closed October loth, with a public examination. The Trustees and 
other literary gentlemen present expressed themselves highly pleased 
throughout, and particularly with the work in the mathematical 
department. On the evening of the same day public exercises 
were held in the Presbyterian Church. A large assembly was 
gathered. The Trustees read their first report and orations were 
delivered by students, representing the Washington and Franklin 
Literary Societies. 

The College was now fairly under way. Many a hard struggle 
was yet to be endured, but an auspicious opening had been secured 
by transplanting the Manual Labor Academy, and the Trustees saw 
a good work going on under faithful hands, and the ultimate success 
of the enterprise seemed assured. All honor to these noble Fathers 
of Lafayette ! 

THE PERMANENT SITE OF THE COLLEGE. 

The efforts of the Trustees were next directed towards securing 
a permanent site for the College. After a careful examination of 
all the locations suggested, they made a purchase of nine acres of 
land, (the present site,) for ;^i4oo. 

A better selection certainly could not have been made. In a 
region abounding in most charming views, that one point which if 
possible surpasses all the rest in the lovelines of its outlook was 
chosen to be the site of the infant College. All the variety of the 
varied and picturesque scenery which has made the " Forks of the 
Delaware" celebrated far and wide, lies before this little mount, 
and can be taken in with a single sweep of the eye. At its foot 



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the Bushkill winds ; on the south and west the Lehigh, whose coursd 
may be traced by the steam of locomotives and the smoke of fur- 
naces that line its banks; on the east, the Delaware sweeping i-ts 
broader current southward ; across the city, three miles away are 
the Musconetcong Hills stretching off eastward into New Jersey 
as far as the eye can see. On the north, half a mile away, is 
Chestnut Hill, beyond which and from whose-top facing northward, 
one may overlook a broad and beautiful valley bounded by the Blue 
Mountains, the even line of whose summit is broken in three 
places; just in front of the beholder the "Wind Gap," twelve miles 
away in a direct line; on the right hand " Delaware Water Gap," 
twenty miles away; on the left hand "Lehigh Gap," twenty-five 
miles away. 

On every side nature has spread her charms with a lavish hand, 
and art vies with nature to heighten the impressive beauty of the 
scene. One never tires of looking at it. The students at the end 
of their College course linger on the brow of the hill with the same 
enthusiastic delight as at first, nay even with a more profound ap- 
preciation of the rich and varied beauties around. 

THE COLLEGE EDIFICE. 

Preparations were early made for the erection of a suitable build- 
ing on the new site. The ground was broken by Dr. Junkin himself 
in June, 1833, and on the morning of the 27th, Judge Porter, Presi- 
dent of the Board of Trustees, laid the first stone. One week later, 
July 4th, the corner-stone was laid with appropriate ceremonies. 
The local public interest in the event was a marked feature of the 
occasion. A procession made up of the College authorities, students 
and citizens, together with the civil and military organizations of 
the vicinity, was formed at the Court House, (then located in Centre 
square,) moved at half-past nine, A. M., to the College grounds, 
where the stone was laid and addresses delivered by Dr. Junkin and 
and Rev. B, C. Wolf. The procession then returned to the German 
Reformed Church, where at half-past eleven o'clock, Hon, Joseph 
R. Ingersoll, of Philadelphia, delivered the oration pursuant to the 
appointment of the Franklin and Washington Literary Societies.* 

*The Philomathean Literary Society was founded early (about 1830) in the 
history of the Pennsylvania Manual Labor Academy at Germantown. In 1831 
some dissension arose among the members, the precise nature of which does not 



HISTORY OF LAIAYETTE COLLEGE. I3 

The building was urged on as rapidly as possible during the sum- 
mer of 1833, and was so far completed as to be ready for occupancy 
in May, 1834. 

The structure (now the central part of South College and one of 
the most substantial edifices on the Hill,) was 112 feet by 44, with 
a recess of 17 by 49 feet. The basement, first and second stories 
of limestone, rough laid, and the third and fourth stories of brick, 
the whole finished in rough-cast. There were six recitation 
rooms, a ' chapel, refectory hall, stewards' rooms, apartments 
for the President and other officers of the college, and about fifty 
rooms for the students. The building had an old-fashioned " hip 
roof" covered with slate, and surmounted with a simple open dome 
fourteen feet in diameter. Although finished in a style of extreme 
and severe plainness it was the pride of the town. At its completion 
it was brilliantly illuminated by the students, who made the day one 
of great festivity and rejoicing. 



appear, and a few of them held a preliminary meeting, November 26th, 1831, 
the final result of which was the founding of the Franklin Literary Society. 
Afterwards, (1832,) the name of the former was changed from '' PhilomaTHEAN " 
to "Washington" Literary Society. 

These " Halls" have continued in friendly and stimulating emulation, to the 
present time. The exercises of the weelvly meetings are mainly the same as at 
first, viz.: the reading of original essays and critiques, declamations, debates and 
original orations. They have occupied since 1834 the two halls on the third 
floor of South College, which they have elegantly furnished for their purpose, 
Washington the west and Franklin the east ; and their respective libraries the 
adjoining rooms. These halls, originally ample in size, have, in the recent 
growth of the College, become far too small for the comfortable accommodation 
of the societies, and it is their purpose to erect a building for their use as soon as 
the needed funds shall be provided. 

The Brainerd Missionary Society may be noticed in this connection. It 
was founded February, 1833, and named in honor of Rev. David Brainerd, the 
illustrious missionary who made the vicinity of Easton one of his stations. The 
society Was organized with a view to promote a missionary spirit among the 
students, and its influence is seen in the moral and religious tone of the College 
as well as in the number of devoted men among the Alumni who have conse- 
crated themselves to the work of foreign missions. Until the formation of The 
Christian Brotherhood, (of which I shall speak in another place,) the daily 
prayer-meeting in Brainerd Hall, was held under the auspices of this society, and 
also the system of Sabbath-schools carried on by the students as superintendents 
and teachers, and now embracing not less than nine schools within a radius of 
four miles from the College, 



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INAUGURATION OF THE FACULTY. 

The ceremonies of inaugurating the President and Faculty, which 
had been deferred until the building should be completed, took 
place May ist, 1834, in the College Hall. The following composed 
the Faculty:* 

Rev. George Junkin, A. M., President and Professor of Mental 
and Moral Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric and Evidences of Christi- 
anity. 

Charles F. McCay, A. B., Professor of Mathematics and Natural 
Philosophy. 

James I. Kuhn, A. B., Professor of tlie Latin and Greek 
Languages. 

Samuel D. Gross, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Mineralogy 
and Botany. 

THE EARLY FEATURES OF THE COLLEGE, 

Some distinctive features of the inner life of the institution de- 
serve here a brief notice. With reference to the curriculum, 
during the first ten years no permanent plan of study appears on 
the records. I shall however refer to this subject further on. 

The Manual Labor System was continued. President Junkin was 
a zealous advocate of this scheme. Its partial failure at the Ger- 
mantown Academy he attributed to disadvantages of location rather 
than to any real defects in plans or principles, and thought to renew 
the trial at Lafayette under more favorable circumstances. The 
Trustees entered heartily into his views, and speak in the warmest 
terms of a scheme which promised such large results, not only in 
bodily health and the saving of money, but in promoting mental 
activity and the development of manly independence of character, f 



* Professor McCay, now an eminent Educator at the South, (University of 
Georgia,) Professor Kuhn, now a prominent lawyer of Pittsburgh, and Dr. Gross, 
the celebrated Professor of Surgery at Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, 
are all pleasantly remembered by the early graduates as men of fine scholarly 
attainments as well as most efficient instructors in their respective departments. 

f From the address delivered by invitation of the Trustees at the " First Annual 
Commencement," by Hon. William Rawle, I take the following extract, as 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. I5 

But notwithstanding these advantages claimed for it, the President 
was obliged after a thorough trial to admit its failure as a part of 
the College scheme. He therefore recommended its abandonment, 
and it was accordingly given up by the Trustees in 1839. 

Another feature of the original plan, containing the germ of the 
present system of State Normal Schools, was the preparation of 
teachers. The system of common schools was then attracting a 
good deal of attention throughout the country. The authorities of 
the College, with the view that the fundamental object of any 
general school system must be the thorough training of teachers, 
established as a part of the curriculum of the College, "a teachers* 
course," designing to issue special diplomas to such students as 
might graduate in it ; and further, if the patronage and public 
bounty should enable them to do so, to add to the course "A Model 
School," in which the art of governing and of communicating 
knowledge might be taught in connection with the various branches 
of instruction. But it was found upon trial, that the number of 
young men who looked forward to teaching as a profession and 
could devote themselves uninterruptedly to the necessary training, 
was not large enough to warrant the continuance of this department 
of the College. It was therefore abandoned ; but, it may be stated 
in this connection, that the Trustees of the College have not lost 
sight of the importance of the thorough training of teachers for their 
responsible duties. The College catalogue in referring to the differ- 
ent courses of study, speaks of "the special professional study of 
Theology, Medicine, Law and Teaching," thus recognizing /eac/iing 
as one of the learned professions ; and it is the design of the Board, as 
soon as the funds of the College will allow, to establish a distinct 
chair for the training of teachers, who at Lafayette will have the 
benefit of the college culture, with all the appliances of the libraries, 

showing the prevailing views upon this point : " By a judicious and well arranged 
union of the arts of industry with scientific and literary studies in their various 
departments, Lafayette College now offers to the rising generation as extensive a 
field for intellectual improvement as any of her sister institutions, while the 
healthful pursuits of mechanical and agricultural labor preserve the youthful con- 
stitution from the wasting effects of mental exertion, and at the same time give to 
the mind that strength and independence which always result from the proud 
consciousness of self-support. Among those sister institutions she now takes her 
stand, aiid this day sends forth into the world her first offspring, to play their 
part in the great drama of life^" 



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apparatus, scientific collections, etc., afforded by its munificent 
endowments. 

The moral and religious training of the students was a subject 
upon which the founders of the College felt deeply, and to which 
they made frequent reference in their published reports. The Bible 
was carefully studied, and punctual attendance at morning and 
evening prayers, and at Divine Service upon the Lord's Day 
was required of all the students. Morning prayers were at five 
o'clock, winter and summer ; and upon the Sabbath, these early 
devotions were immediately followed by a Bible-class. "This 
"exercise," says the Fifth Annual Report, "generally occupies an 
hour. It is exegetical, didactic, polemic and practical." At 
evening worship "such of the students in order as are willing to 
officiate are called upon to lead in prayer." 

The government of the College was administered on the princi- 
ple of strict and systematic vigilance. Dr. Junkin was a man 
kindly but severe, authoritative and with a wonderful force of per- 
sonal presence. From his private apartments one door opened into 
the refectory, where all the students ate "under the eye of one or 
two professors," and which was rightly considered one of the most 
difficult departments to govern ; another door led to the prayer 
hall. The residence of the other members of the Faculty was also 
managed with a view to "facility of access," and arrangements 
made for frequent visits to the 'rooms of students in order, as the 
early catalogues say, "to keep up a perpetual vigilance over the 
whole." Under this system of strict supervision, and perhaps by 
reason of it, there grew up some peculiar phases of student life 
almost unknown to us now-a-days, except through vague traditions. 
The ways they had of circumventing the watchful Faculty, their 
tricks and pranks, their midnight noises, their sudden detections 
and marvellous escapes, their rebellions, trials and punishments, all 
this would make up a chapter in the early history of Lafayette of 
great interest, at least to the present generation of students. 

But, withal, this severe surveillance had a tender side. It 
assumed a certain waywardness of the young men, but its aim was 
to provide healthful moral restraints ; and it was true then of the 
College, as it has been for the most part throughout its history, that 
the high moral and religious tone was such as to commend it 
warmly to public confidence as a place where young men may safely 
spend the most decisive period of life. A very large portion of 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 1 7 

the Students were professors of religion representing various denomi- 
nations, and many of these looking forward to the Christian 
ministry ; so that independently of the pastoral oversight of the 
President and the religious care of instructors, there was that best 
of all influences growing out of the voluntary association of earnest 
Christian young men.* 

PRESIDENT JUNKIN'S RESIGNATION. 

Dr. Junkin resigned the Presidency in 1S41, to accept the Presi- 
dency of Miami University, Ohio. He was however recalled in 
1844, f and remained at the head of the College until 1848, when he 
again resigned and assumed the Presidency of Washington College, 
Virginia. 

Even this brief history would be incomplete without a grateful 
record of his laborious and self-denying efforts for the College 
during the thirteen years he was President. Few ever toiled with 
more enthusiasm and at times with greater discouragement, to 
accomplish a cherished object. In one of his published Baccalau- 
reates he compares the progress of the College to that of a 
" traveller who spends his long and toilsome day in passing from 
mountain crag to mountain crag without appearing to have gained 
much either in elevation or distance;" and he adds, not without a 
tone of sadness, " shelving crag indeed and rolling rock, and moun- 
tain torrent, and chilling iceberg, and deep dark ravine we have 
encountered." Indeed, there were times when his strong, brave 
heart failed and his purpose seemed to falter. He refers in a letter 
published January 7th, 1864, to one special period of depression, 
in 1837, when he called a meeting of the friends of the College in 
Philadelphia, and " submitted to them the question of his abandon- 
ing the enterprise in which he had been engaged for nearly seven 
years. He stated his entire willingness to cease all efforts for the 
establishment of Lafayette College, if the present meeting should 

*One of the early catalogues referring to the " evidence of a good moral atmo- 
sphere " in the fact that no case of discipline had occurred at Lafayette during 
the year, adds, with pardonable enthusiasm, " Blessed is that College whose laws 
are lost sight of by becoming incarnate in the hearts of all its members !" 

f His letter accepting the reappointment is characteristic of the man, prompt, 
generous, enthusiastic. " Most gladly do I accept," says he, " the appointment to 
which the kind partialities of your Board has called me !" and in concluding his 
letter he anticipates with enthusiasm " being among a people who have more than 
fully appreciated our work and services and who have /i^'ar/j within their bodies !" 
2 



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SO advise." But fortunately all these friends* opposed the aban- 
donment, and cheered by their words he returned to his toil. 
The records and publications of the College, as well as his 
memoirs, bear testimony to the same ardor and zeal and the same 
heroic struggling with difficulties until his second and final relin- 
quishment of the enterprise in 1S48. He never ceased, Avhethei* 
absent or present, to cherish the College in his heart. In 1842, 
when President of Miami University, he delivered the Commence- 
ment Oration, by invitation of the Literary Societies, and in his letter 
forwarding the MS. at their request for publication, he refers with 
his accustomed ardor to " lovely Lafayette " (as he was wont to term 
it,) "around which the fondest affections of this parent heart still 
cling." Although his second resignation was occasioned or hasten- 
ed by personal difficulties with certain members of the Board, (of 
which this is not the time to speak,) there was no permanent 
alienation of his interest or of his affections, and when he returned 
north in 1861, he renewed at once the associations of his earlier 
years. Many of the more recent Alumni will recall his venerable 
form upon the platform, year after year, at Commencement and at 
other public exercises of the College. He rejoiced at the wonderful 
growth of the Institution, over the first beginnings of which he had 
watched with such earnest solicitude, and tlie papers relate how at 
the Commencement in 1S65, when called upon to pronounce the 
benediction, he advanced to the front of the platform and pointing 
through the open windows to the new buildings that crown College 
Hill, said with a voice trembling with emotion and that thrilled 
the whole audience, "all that this fond heart of mine ever dreamed 
for lovely Lafayette is fast being accomplished, and I am ready to 
say, Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart, for mine eyes have 
seen thy salvation." 

It should be added that for the last three years of his life the 
name of Dr. Junkin again appears upon the College catalogue : 
" Emeritus Professor of Political Economy." 



* Among these. Dr. Junkin especially mentions Dr. Archibald Alexander and 
Dr. John Breckinridge. Dr. Alexander was most earnest in his opposition to giving 
up the enterprise. Referring to the college at Princeton, of which he was a 
Trustee, he said : " There is no danger of injurious competition, but probable 
benefit from the kind of rivalry which may spring up. I should be very sorry to 
see the ground at Easton abandoned and the labor lost, i? mus/ not bet" 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. I9 

COLLEAGUES OF DR. JUNKIN IN THE FACULTY. 

Among the eminent scholars associated with Dr. Junkin in the 
Faculty at Lafayette, besides those already mentioned, there are 
still living, Dr. Traill Green, elected Professor of Chemistry, 1837, 
and who is still with us, loved and honored ; Rev. Robert Cunning- 
ham, of Scotland ; Rev. James C. Moffat, D. D., afterwards Professor 
at the College of New Jersey, and now in the Theological Seminary 
at Princeton ; Rev. David X. Junkin, D. D. ; and Rev. Wm. Henry 
Green, D. D. LL.D.,* a graduate of Lafayette, (class of 1840,) and 
now Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Literature in the Theological 
Seminary at Princeton. Among the learned dead are such men as 
Washington McCartney, 'L'L.Y).,-\^ a man of wonderful learning 
and genius, of whom the older Alumni delight to speak, and 
James H. Coffin, LL.D.,| whose lamented death in 1873, after a 

* Professor Green was elected President of Princeton College in 1868. It was 
noted with pleasure by the friends of both Princeton and Lafayette that each 
College had furnished to the other its President — Dr. Cattell, at that time Presi- 
dent of I^afayette, being a graduate of Princeton College. Dr. Green, however, 
preferring the duties of his Professorship in the Theological Seminary, declined 
the position offered to him in the College. 

■f Hon. Washington McCartney, LL.D., was born in Westmoreland County, 
Pennsylvania, on the 24th of August, i8i2, and died July 15th, 1856. He 
graduated with the highest honors, at Jefferson College, in 1834, and was the 
next year appointed Professor of Mathematics in Lafayette College. In 1836 he 
accepted the Professorship of Mathematics and Modern Languages in Jefferson 
College, but soon returned to Easton and resumed his position at Lafayette, 
August 15th, 1837. With some intervals he held his position in the Faculty till 
1853, (from 1849 to 1853 as Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy,) during 
which time he published his celebrated work upon " Differential Calculus," which 
for many years was the text-book on that subject used in our best colleges. The 
honorary degree of LL.D., was conferred upon him by Marshall College in 1852. 
He was admitted to the bar of Northampton County, Pa., January i8th, 1838, and 
was elected President Judge of the Third Judicial District in 1 85 1, and held the 
judgeship until his death. The brief inscription upon his monument in the 
Easton Cemetery — "Scholar, Jurist, Christian" — well describes this re- 
markable man. 

J James II. Coffin, LL.D., was born in Williamsburg, Mass., on the 6th of 
September, 1806. He graduated at Amherst College in 1828, and the year fol- 
lowing established, at Greenfield, Mass., the Fellenberg Manual Labor Institution, 
which for eight yeai-s continued to be one of the rarely successful instances of 
this system in our country. He afterwards became the Principal of the Ogdens- 
burg (N. Y.) Academy, and in 1839, a member of the Faculty of Williams 



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faithful service of twenty-six years, is still felt as a recent bereave- 
ment. Prof. Coffin is well known to the world as a gifted scholar. 
Professor Henry and other eminent scientists at home and abroad 
have spoken of him in the warmest terms as an admirable ex- 
ample of a successful investigator, whose labors have contributed 
most valuable results to the fund of human knowledge ; but 
we students knew him best as a teacher and as a man. As a 
teacher his faithfulness was a proverb ; and he threw into his work 
that vigor and enthusiasm which rarely fails of success. As a man 
he was kind, and noble and good, beyond any power of my words 
to tell it. Everybody loved him. He had some personal peculiari- 
ties, but he was loved even for these, for they were not the out- 
growth of faults, but only the excesses of his virtues, of his great 
kindness of heart and strict integrity of character. A grand life 
indeed ! a beautiful one too, beautifully mellowed and moulded by 
Christian gifts and graces. There was no phase of it that would do 
violence to one's best ideal of manhood. The world misses him, 
but none more than those who knew him best. 

PRESIDENT YEOMANS. 

In Dr. Junkin's letter tendering his first resignation, December 
25th, 1840, and which the Board accepted with the expression of 
their "gratitude for his able and faithful labors," he urges, with a 
thoughtful regard for the interests of the College, that "immediate 
measures be taken to fill the vacancy hereby created, as I know that 
the hope of keeping the students together will depend much upon 
speedy action." Accordingly the next week the Trustees met for the 
purpose of electing a successor, and the names of no less than eight 
candidates urged by their friends were placed upon the records of 

College. In 1846 he became Professor of Mathematics in Lafayette College, 
where he remained till his death, February 6th, 1873. 

Professor Coffin was an eminent scholar, a diligent and fruitful worker in 
Mathematics and the sciences, particularly in the department of Meteorology. 
His work in this field he carried on from the time of his graduation, even in the 
midst of his constant labors as an educator. He was fitted for it by the best gifts 
of heart and head. A man of clear, strong and candid mind, of scrupulous 
integrity of character, of conscientious regard for accuracy in the execution of 
his work, and above all, a lover of the truth for its own sake. His great work, 
"The Winds of the Globe," almost completed at the time of his death, is now 
published under the auspices of the Smithsonian Institution. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 21 

the Board. It was not, however, till a month afterwards, (January 
26th, 1841,) that an election was had, when Dr. Alexander T. McGill, 
then Pastor of the Reformed Presbyterian Church at Carlisle, now 
Professor in the Theological Seminary at Princeton, was unan- 
imously chosen President of the College. Upon his declining the 
appointment, as the records of the Board say, "being very much 
urged by his congregation to remain in his present situation," the 
Rev. James W. Alexander, D. D., then Professor at Princeton 
College was by a unanimous vote offered the Presidency. He also 
declined, (his letter stating " that his health would not permit him 
to accept,") and at the next meeting of the Board the Rev. John W. 
Yeomans, D.D.,* then Pastor of the Presbyterian Church of Tren- 
ton, New Jersey, was elected, and to the gratification of all the 
friends of the College accepted the situation and was inaugurated 
August 1 8th, 1 841. 

Dr. Yeomans was a ripe scholar, an able teacher, and a stem 
officer. His administration was not marked by any great progress, 
or by anything that lifted it out from the even tenor of that period, 



*John William Yeomans, D. D., was bom in Hinsdale, Massachusetts, on 
the 7th of January, 1800. When quite young he served some time as an 
apprentice, but soon turned his attention to study and commenced his preparation 
for college under the direction of the Rev. Dr. Cummings, of Albany, N. Y. 
After the short space of a year and a half spent in preparatory study, he entered 
the junior class of Williams College, Mass. He graduated in 1824 with the 
second honor in his class, Mark Hopkins, (afterwards President) being the first. 
For two years he was Tutor in the College, after which he studied Theology 
in the Seminary at Andover, Mass. His first pastoral charge was at North 
Adams, Mass., where he remained from November, 1828, till the spring of 
1832, when he became pastor of the First Congregational Church of Pittsfield, 
Massachusetts. In the spring of 1834 he was called to the First Presbyterian 
Church of Trenton, N. J., as successor to the Rev. Dr. James W. Alexander. 
In the spring of 1841 he accepted the Presidency of Lafayette College, remaining 
until the early part of the year 1845, when he became pastor of the Mahoning 
Church, in Danville, Pa., where he continued in the discharge of his ministerial 
duties until his death, June 22d, 1863. Dr. Yeomans .was a deep thinker and a 
vigorous and able writer. He was regarded as one of the leading Theologians 
in the Presbyterian Church, and as a Metaphysician, he had probably but few 
equals among his brethren. The degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred 
upon him by three different colleges at the same time, — the College of New 
Jersey, Williams College and Miami University. In i860 he was elected 
Moderator of the General Assembly. 



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but it was a time of transition and tlierefore of more vital import- 
ance than would appear in the mere outward history. The College 
was freeing itself, one by one, from the experiments of its early 
history and settling more and more into tried collegiate ways, an 
experience that severely tested the faith and endurance of the 
President and of those who so nobly devoted themselves to its 
interests. Among these changes may be mentioned the recent aban- 
donment of the manual labor plan. Though a step plainly necessary 
it was nevertheless regarded with much disfavor by a large class of 
patrons, particularly those upon whom the burden of self-support 
bore heavily. Although the necessary expenses of the College 
course even at the maximum were remarkably light, a great many 
of the young men were in such circumstances that even the slight 
aid afforded by this system was a matter of great importance. 

Dr. Yeomans resigned in 1844. At the same meeting at 
which his resignation was accepted, September . 7th, Dr. Junkin 
was unanimously re-elected to the Presidency and held the office as 
before mentioned until September 19th, 1848, when he resigned to 
accept the Presidency of Washington College, Lexington, Virginia. 



DR. NASSAU, PRESIDENT-ELECT. 

Upon the resignation of Dr. Junkin in 1848, Rev. Charles W. 
Nassau, D. D.,* Vice-President of the Faculty, assumed executive 
charge of the College. Dr. Nassau was indeed President-elect 
from March 13th, 1849, t>ut to the great regret of the friends of the 
College was never inaugurated, and resigned in September, 1850. 
It was not at all due to any want of executive talent or of scholarly 
ability in this worthy man, that the College was in 1849 and 1850 
greatly embarrassed in its condition and prospects. In the fall of 
1848 when the College year opened, it was without a President, and 
to aggravate its difficulties and to threaten even its final overthrow, 
some parties holding its loans began to press their claims at the law, 

*Dr. Nassau is the only one of the Ex- Presidents of the College who still 
survives. After leaving Lafayette in 1850, he took charge of a Young Ladies' 
Seminary at Lawrenceville, N. J., which prospered greatly under his able admin- 
istration. From this position he withdrew in 1875, and is now living in retire- 
ment at Trenton, N. J. An event of great interest to his family and numerous 
friends, was the celebration of his Golden Wedding in May Inst, an account of 
which appeared iii the Lafayette College Journal for that month. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 23 

So that against the slow but steady increase of the preceding years, 
there was from the time of Dr. Junkin's resignation a very marked 
falling off in the patronage. The number in attendance in the four 
College classes fell from 82 in 1848, to 25 in 1850. This was sap- 
ping the life-blood of the College. Without any resources in the 
Way of a permanent endowment, the income of the College from 
tuition fees, inadequate at the best, becaine almost fatally so at any 
considerable decrease of the number of students. It seemed indeed 
to many, as if the College must be closed. 

THE COLLEGE CONNECTED W^ITH SYNOD OF 
PHILADELPHIA. 

At this period the question of Parochial Schools, Presbyterial 
Academies and Synodical Colleges was exciting general interest 
throughout the Presbyterian Church. In these discussions that 
eminent Divine, Dr. Cortland Van Rennsalaer, Secretary of the 
Board of Education took a prominent part, urging the scheme by 
popular addresses and numerous publications. Other men, among 
the most distinguished in the church, earnestly advocated the plan,* 
and it seemed to the Trustees as if this scheme afforded a guarantee 
not only for the permanence of the College, but for its increased 
usefulness. Although it had hitherto been "undenominational," 
its Presidency had always been occupied by Presbyterian ministers 
and nearly all of its Professorships by members of the Presbyterian 
Church. Most of its benefactors and patrons were also members 
of this denomination, f and it seemed to require only a slight 
change to make the College avowedly a Presbyterian Institution. 
Accordingly overtures were made to the Synod of Philadelphia, 
and in 1850 it was formally received under the care and patronage 
of that venerable body and the charter was amended by the Legis- 
lature to correspond to the fact. 



*Dr. Charles Hodge, in his address before the General Assembly, 1847, said: 
" We ought to look forward and strive to carry out the good old Presbyterian 
plan, of having one or more schools in every parish, a classical academy in every 
Presbytery, and a college in every Synod, all tinder the control of the Chtirch." 

■j- The charge of sectarianism w^as early brought against the College, and was in 
fact one of the great difficulties with which it had to contend in its early history. 
In 1834, when the Trustees applied to the Legislature for aid, remonstrances 
were sent to Harrisburg on the ground that the College was a sectarian institution, 
and " the students were required to attend the Presbyterian Church on the 



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PRESIDENT McLEAN. 

Under the new regime the Rev. D. V. McLean, D. D.,* was elect- 
ed President and was inaugurated in 1S51. He at once undertook 
to raise a permanent endowment of ^100,000 by the sale of scholar- 
ships ; the sum of ^100 entitling the subscriber to the tuition of all 
his own sons or the sons of any person to whom he might transfer 
the certificate; no subscription to be binding until the whole 
amount of ^100,000 was subscribed. f President McLean pushed 
the work with untiring energy, and the full amount was pledged by 
the first of January, 1854. Monday, January 2d, was celebrated 
by the students in honor of the result. The College building was 
illuminated in the evening, and the students with the Faculty and 
others interested assembled in Brainerd Hall, where they were 
addressed by Mr. Edsall Ferrier, a member of the senior class, 
(afterwards Vice-President of Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg) 

Sabbath." This charge continued to be urged against the College by the public, 
and, indeed, was the subject of no little contention among its officers and imme- 
diate friends. After the College became avowedly a Presbyterian institution it 
was often remarked that it seemed to possess the confidence, and certainly 
received the cordial co-operation and even patronage of other denominations to 
a much greater extent than when it tried to perform the difficult duty of 
preserving an even balance between them. It is worthy of notice that in no 
period of its history has there been so large a proportion of its students from 
other denominations as at the present time ; many of them preparing for the min- 
istry of their own churches. 

* Daniel V. McLean, D. D., was a native of Ohio, but was brought up in the Cum- 
berland Valley, Pa., in the vicinity of Carlisle. He graduated at Ohio University, 
and in 1827 entered the Princeton. Theological Seminaiy, where he remained 
about two years. He labored successfully as a pastor in Lebanon, Ohio, and 
Freehold, N. J. He was called to the Presidency of Lafayette College in 1850, 
and remained till 1857, when he again resumed the duties of pastor, minister- 
ing to a congregation in Plainfield, N. J., and later in Redbank, N. J. He died 
at the latter place in November, 1869. The honorary degree of Doctor of 
Divinity was conferred on him by Lafayette College in 1842. He was a man of 
fine aljilities, and was eminent for energy of character. 

f The tuition fees for each student amounted to ;?i6o, and therefore if but one 
person entered upon the scholarship there would be a considerable saving. But 
even with this liberal offer to subscribers it seemed to many friends of the College 
scarcely possible to raise so large a sum as ^100,000, and Dr, McLean, in his 
communication to the Trustees, July 22d, 1851, speaks of it as "a work of 
amazing magnitude, to accomplish which will require an amount of labor and 
toil almost superhuman." 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 25 

and, in response, by the President. A torch-light procession through 
the town ended the rejoicing of the day. 

This success brought the College again into favorable notice and 
the number of students upon the rolls in 1856, reached 106, the 
highest number that had ever been enrolled in the four regular 
classes. But the financial relief was only temporary. Of course 
the scholarships cut off nearly the entire revenue from tuition so 
that the financial condition of the College was scarcely, if at all, 
improved by the increase in the number of students, while they 
added largely to the expenditure. It was found also that a large 
part of the subscriptions could not be collected, and that a consid- 
erable part of that actually paid was sunk in liquidating the debts 
of the College, so that in 1857 when Dr. McLean resigned, the 
Trustees found themselves in the old and somewhat chronic con- 
dition of extreme pecuniary embarrassment. It was at first resolved 
as a matter of economy not to make any appointment to the Presi- 
dency, but for a time at least, to divide the executive duties among 
the existing members of the Faculty. 

PRESIDENT McPHAIL. 

The Rev. G. Wilson McPhail, D. D.,* a man of rare scholarly 
ability was at this time pastor of the Brainerd Church in Easton, 
and it was proposed to him to preside at the Commencement, and 
to give for a mere nominal consideration such time to the affairs of 
the College as he could spare from his pastoral duties. This propo- 
sition he generously accepted ; but it soon became evident that the 

*Rev. George Wilson McPhail, D. D., was born in Norfolk, Va., in 1S16. He 
spent two years at Hampden Sidney College, Va., then entered Yale and 
graduated in 1835. He pursued his theological studies at Hampden Sidney. 
His first charge was in Cumberland county, Va., from which place he removed 
to Fredricksburg, where, in addition to his pastoral duties, he conducted very 
successfully a female seminary. In 1854 he was called to Easton as the first 
pastor of the Brainerd Church. In October, 1S57, he was elected President of 
Lafayette College, which place he occupied till 1S63, when he resigned, and 
became c jnnected with Professor Saunder's Seminary, Philadelphia. At the close 
of the war he returned to Norfolk, Va., and soon after, accepted the Presidency of 
Davidson College, N. C, where he remained until his death, which was very 
sudden, occurring on commencement day, June 28th, 1871. The honorary 
degree of Doctor of Divinity was conferred on him by Jefferson College, 
in 1857. He was a true scholar, an able preacher, and a warm-hearted, Christian 
gentleman. 



26 SKETCHES OF THE 

College absolutely needed an Executive, and that Dr. McPhail 
possessed eminent qualifications for the place, so that he ultimately 
resigned the pastoral care of the Brainerd Church, and g"ve his 
whole time and strength to the College, where as a profound scholar, 
and successful teacher, his memory is still cherished. He was 
formally inaugurated President of the College in 1858. 

But notwithstanding the renewed efforts of its friends and the 
practice of the most rigid economy, the financial condition and the 
general prospects of the College grew worse until at the breaking 
out of the civil war in 1861, new and greater difficulties were 
encountered. We shall not soon forget the patriotism and self- 
sacrificing spirit with which men of all classes in the universal up- 
rising of 1 86 1, went forth to bear the hardships of the camp, and 
brave the perils of battle. Among those who so nobly responded 
to this call, the graduates and under-graduates of our colleges, as 
statistics shows, were represented in larger proportion than any 
other class. In this Lafayette bore her full share.* 

In 1862, after the battle of Antietam, the students enlisted in 
considerable numbers. In 1863, when Lee invaded Pennsylvania, 
the rush to arms was so general that the College was almost without 
students. There was no Commencement in '6;^, the seniors who 
should have graduated that year taking their degrees the year 
following. 

Besides the enlistment of students, the depression of the times in 
the progress of the war tended to diminish the number, and the 
public attention and interest seemed to be completely diverted into 
other channels. 



*The roll of honor shows the names of two hundred and eighteen graduates, 
non-graduates and under-graduates who served in the military and naval service 
of the United States during the war. Of those in the army, six were General 
officers, seven Colonels, five Lieutenant-Colonels, nine Majors, twenty-nine 
Assistant Surgeons, fifteen Chaplains, twenty-three Captains, twenty-three Lieu- 
tenants, twenty-five non-commissioned officers, and seventy-seven Privates. And 
in the navy, one Lieutenant Commander, one Professor of Mathematics, one 
Paymaster, two Assistant Surgeons, and one Volunteer Lieutenant. 

Of the regular graduates living at the time and not yet beyond the military age, 
over twenty-six per cent, entered the service. The average percentage of the 
New England colleges is about twenty three per cent., Yale leading them with 
twenty-five. 

The above facts are gathered from the Commemorative Address delivered by 
Prof. Henry T. Lee, (Major 4th N. Y, Artillery,) July 24th, 1866, 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 2"] 

Under these trying difficulties in August, 1863, President McPhail 
resigned. The condition of the College became so alarming, and 
its friends so generally disheartened, that a special meeting of the 
Board of Trustees was called in Philadelphia, to "take into consid- 
eration the propriety of suspending operations under increasing 
embarrassments." As one of the results of this meeting, a com- 
mittee was appointed to confer with Professors Coffin, March and 
Coleman with reference to the possibility of keeping the College 
in operation the following year. This conference had respect mainly 
to the compensation of these Professors ; and it is worthy of record 
here, that these self-sacrificing men, to whom Lafayette owes so 
much, both in the efficiency of her daily work, and in her renown 
abroad, did not desert her in her extremity. The committee re- 
ported favorably to the Board. The College was to go on at least 
for another year. In other words, the Professors would keep it in 
operation at all hazards and take what the Board could give them 
in compensation. 

PRESIDENT CATTELL. 

It was at this critical juncture in the history that we find the 
Board turning their attention to one who had been a Professor in 
the institution, Rev. William C. Cattell, to whom they gave a hearty 
call to return to Lafayette and fill the vacant Presidency. Dr. 
Cattell was' at that time pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church at 
Harrisburg. His pastorate of three years was one of marked success 
and usefulness; an able and devoted preacher, a man of warm and 
sympathetic heart, he had won the love of all his people, who when 
he accepted the proffered Presidency, consented to his separation 
from them with the utmost reluctance, and only under the conviction 
that he was called to a higher work. This indeed has proved to be 
the case ; but it was a work beset with great difficulties. Dr. Cattell 
was not ignorant of these, nor was he disheartened by them. He 
came to his new and enlarged sphere of labor, with a strong faith 
in the ultimate success of the enterprise. 

To his earnest zeal in the cause of education he added a knowl- 
edge of the ground, and a keen insight, which enabled him to see 
the wants of the age in the matter of the higher education. He 
knew that Lafayette College had a future before her, and a work to 
d ), from which those to whom her interests were intrusted must by 
no means shrink. His efforts at the very outset were characterized 



38 SKETCHES OF THE 

by that energy, prudence and tact which always master difficulties, 
and which for him secured at once the hearty co-operation and con- 
fidence of the friends of the College. 

President Cattell was inaugurated in the College Chapel, Tuesday 
afternoon, July 26th, 1S64, in the presence of the Trustees, the 
Faculty and the students, a number of the members of Synod, 
Alumni, citizens of Easton, and other friends of the Institution. 
The occasion was one on which Lafayette felt a thrill of returning 
hope. Governor Pollock, President of the Board of Trustees, 
touched its key-note in his admirable introductory address when he 
said ; 

" But tlie hour of darkness and gloom has passed ; and to-day, within her walls 
all is harmony and peace ; and at this hour, and in analogy with nature now 
robed in sunshine and smiling after the storm, the light of a genial sun now" 
pouring down upon us through the riven and scattered clouds, Lafayette College 
stands revealed in the light of returning prosperity, and all without betokens 
favor, success and triumph ! 

" We have met to-day to witness the inauguration of one well-known and 
appreciated by you all ; and who has been honored by a most happy, cordial and 
unanimous election by the Synod and Board of Trustees. We present him to 
you as the scholar and the man— the highest style of man — the Christian gentle- 
man, and one who combines in a remarkable degree, the quiet dignity of the 
Christian minister, the accomplishments of the scholar, and the no less important 
qualifications of an administrative officer." 

A new vitality was at once infused, and new vigor characterized 
the work of the College, both in its inner life and in the more remote 
points of contact with the patronage and public. Nor was the new 
era inaugurated without more special indications of the divine favor. 
A work of grace among the students took place in 1864, which was 
perhaps the most remarkable of the great revivals that have charac- 
terized the recent history."'' It seemed like the seal of God set anew 
upon the Institution. 

Doubtless the time has not yet come for the full treatment of this 
portion of the history in its personal aspects. President Cattell is 
still with us, still in the vigor of middle life, and with full heart 

* Scarcely a year has passed during the present administration without a relig- 
ious awakening in the College, more or less wide-spread and powerful. Those 
of 1867, 1870, and 1873 were especially remarkable for the profound interest 
manifested by all the student<=, and the large numbers who made profession of a 
change of heart. During the past college year the Christian life of the College 
has been quickened in an unusual degree; many of the students have professed 
conversion, but of the full results of the awakening it is too soon to speak. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 29 

and strong arm, with a strength indeed that grows with growing 
opportunities, is pushing the important work that lies before him. 
The world will read in the work itself the fittest praise of the energy 
and ability of the man whose best work after all will not be recorded 
in the history of great buildings, of swelling endowments and new 
courses of study, but in the hearts and lives of the hundreds of 
young men whose characters are moulded under his personal 
influence. These will never forget the kind-hearted President, en- 
deared to them alike as a faithful friend, a wise counselor and an 
eminent example of a life devoted wiih Christian fidelity to a great 
and good work. 

Under this administration Lafayette has risen to her present 
commanding eminence, embracing departments of instruction, 
widely different in specific scope and aim, yet brought into stimu- 
lating contact and so into the unity of a harmonious progress. 

The external features of this growth may be briefly exhibited. 

STUDENTS. 

As to the number of students, the surest test of substantial pro- 
gress, there has been a steady and rapid advance. The successive 
annual reports of the Faculty for the past thirteen years, show the 
following numbers in attendance upon the regular College Classes. 
The College has no preparatory department. 

In 1863, 39. 1870, 188. 

1864, 46. 1871, 233. 

1865, 51. 1872, 222. 

1866, 65. 1873, 243- 

1867, 101. 1874, 280. 

1868, 128. 1875, 319- 

1869, 145. 

THE FACULTY.* 

In 1863-64 the Faculty consisted of nine members. The addi- 
tion of new departments of study, and the large increase of students 
have made it necessary to secure a much larger corps of instructors. 



* Some mention has already been made of the notable eminent men who were 
identified with the Faculty in the earlier times. It should also be added that 
the friends of the College feel a just pride in the fidelity and talent of those who 
now compose it. We who, as students, have enjoyed the advantages of their 
faithful instruction, would gladly accord them much more than this mere passing 



3° 



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In 1S65-66 the number was sixteen; in 1870 it was twenty, and at 
the present time it is twenty-eight; as follows: 

William C. Cattell, D. D., President, and Professor of Mental and Moral Phi- 
losophy. 

Traill Green, M. D., LL.D., Dean of the Pardee Scientific Department and 
Professor of General Chemistry. 

Francis Andrew March, LL.D., Librarian, and Professor of the English Lan- 
guage and Comparative Philology. 

John Leaman, A. M., M. D., Professor (Emeritus) of Human Physiology. 

Lyman Coleman, D. D., Professor of Latin and Biblical Geography. 

Thomas C. Porter, D. D., Professor of Botany and Zoology. 

Robert B. Youngman, A. M., Clerk of the Faculty, and Professor of the Greek 
Language and Literature. 

Augustus A. Bloomberg, Ph. D., Professor of Modern Languages. 

Frederick Prime, Jr., A. M., Professor of Metallurgy and Mineralogy. 

E. H. Barlow, A. M., Professor of Rhetoric and Elocution. 

Rossiter W. Raymond, Ph. D., Lecturer on Mining Geology. 

Selden Jennings Coffin, A. M., Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. 

J. \V. Moore, A. M., ^L D., Professor of Mechanics and Physics. 

J. M. Silliman, ^L E., Markle Prof, of Mining Engineering, and Graphics. 

Joseph G. Fox., C. E., Professor of Civil Engineering. 

Thomas M. Drown, M. D., Adamson Professor of Analytical Chemistry. 

A. Ballard, D. D., Douglass Professor of Christian Greek and Latin. 

A. L. Baker, C. E., Adjunct Professor of Civil Engineering. 

Joseph Johnson Hardy, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Mathematics. 

David Bennett King, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages. 

William Baxter Owen, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Ancient "Languages. 

John Meigs, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Modern Languages. 

A. H. Caughey, A. M., Adjunct Professor of Ancient Languages. 

William S. Sweeny, A. M., Tutor in General Chemistry. 

J. G. Diefenderfer, C. E., Tutor in Mathematics. 

William H. Schuyler, A. B., Tutor in Modern Languages. 

Joseph R Shinier, M. E., Tutor in Metallurgy. 

Edward Hart, B. S., Tutor in Analytical Chemistry. 



notice. Dr. Lyman Coleman, our venerable Professor of Latin, the friend of 
Neander, the ripe Biblical and classical scholar, whose books are known and 
used alike in this country and in England ; Dr. Traill Green, by whose efficient 
labors, extending through forty years, the department of Chemistiy has peached 
its present renown ; Dr. Francis A. March, ranked among the leading philo- 
logists of the age, and Dr. Thomas C. Porter, recognized as authority along with 
the leading naturalists of our time ; these are well known : nor should it be for- 
gotten that among the younger professors, there are not a few who, already 
eminent as instructors, are winning their way to scholarly distinction in their 
several departments. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 3I 

RECITATIONS AND LECTURES. 

There has been a corresponding increase in the amount of 
actual class-room work. From 1859 to 1865 there were given 
annually in the four classes 2070 recitations and lectures. In 
1 865-' 66, when the Scientific Department was added, more than 
half the exercises of the new course were coincident with those of 
the old, 913 were not so, making the total for that year 2983. 
The annual number of recitations and lectures at the present time, 
not including the working sections, or the post-graduate courses, 
h 9263. 

This large increase has been caused partly by additions to the 
curriculum, but mainly by the division and sub-division of large 
classes. The policy of hearing classes in sections so small that 
each student shall be sure of daily drill is strictly adhered to, and 
will account in some measure for the exact and thorough character 
of the work done at this College. The Freshman class, for example, 
in Mathematics recites this term in five sections. The classical 
Freshmen recite in three sections, each in Greek and Latin, and 
the scientific Freshmen in three, each in French and German. The 
advantage of thus dividing into sections of from twelve to twenty 
men, is well known to all thorough teachers; besides the benefit 
of the actual recitation, the student has the incitement of knowing 
beforehand that he will be called upon to recite at every exercise, 
and the instructor is better able to ascertain the progress and the 
particular needs of each member of the division. 

THE COLLEGE GROUNDS. 

The College grounds have been enlarged by successive purchases, 
to include about thirty-three acres, most of which has been greatly 
improved within the past few years. The work, carried on accord- 
ing to the plans of Mr. Donald G. Mitchell ("Ik Marvel"), and 
under the supervision of Mr. S. L. Fisler, A.M. (class of 1861), has 
consisted of grading, terracing, ornamental planting, and the laying 
out and construction of walks, drives, etc., and is so far completed 
that the campus already presents a picture of rare beauty. This is 
not, of course, a work of mere aimless adornment, but is carried 
on under the deliberate recognition of the educational influences of 
art. The authorities regard it as a matter of great importance 
that the surroundings of young men, while in the process of edu- 



32 SKETCHES OF THE 

cation, sliould be such as to engage the mind, not only with the 
most pleasing aspects of nature, but also with the finer forms of 
beauty into wliich nature may be wrought by the skillful touch of 
man. The students are thus brought under the refining influences 
of a constant aesthetic culture. 

Attention has already been called to the natural advantages of 
the location in this respect, and it is the design to complete the 
artistic inijjrovements that have already made College Hill the 
admiration of all beholders. 

THE NEW BUILDINGS. 

The most noticeable feature of the external growth, however, is 
seen in the buildings. Twelve years ago, the original edifice and 
the small building to the west of it, built by Dr. Junkin for the 
Model Sihool, were the only structures Since that time these 
have been thoroughly renovated and others added. The old 
college (now South C()LLE(;e) has been so completely transformed 
as to appear scarcely the same building. The old hip-roof has been 
replaced by a neat Mansard, and the east and west wings added. 

The East Wing contains Eastonian Hall, whit h is fitted up as a 
reading-room, and is supplied with tlie best newspajiers and peri- 
odicals of America, England, France and Germany. Dictionaries, 
Cyclopaedias and other works of reference belonging to the 
Library, are also placed in this room. It occupies the first floor 
and the second story in galleries, making a spacious, light and airy 
hall. It is adorned with literary treasures and portraits of honored 
benefactors and officers of the College. Among these collections is 
a Papyrus Scroll five feet long, from a mummy at Thebes, with a 
hieratic inscription pronounced by Seyffarth the finest he has 
seen, presented by Hon. John W. Garrett, of Baltimore. There is 
also a full-length portrait of Lafayette, painted by Healy at the 
Chateau La Grange from Ary Sheffer's famous pointing, and 
presented by Dr. Thomas W. Evans, of Paris. Above are the 
President's room and three lecture halls. This wing is 35 by 6614' 
feet, and is connected with the main building by a bell tower 80 
feet in height. The entire cost was 1123,400. 

The West Wing is 44 by 84 feet in size, and like the east wing is of 
brick, rough-cast, trimmed with brown stone quoins and water table. 
The new chapel occupies the first floor, a double story, 26 feet 
in height, above which are Dr. Porter's lecture-room, the College 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 33 

Herbarium, the Botanical Laboratories, and the Museum of Natural 
History. The clock tower, surmounted by a spire, is 125 feet in 
height, and forms the connection between tliis wing and the main 
building. The whole cost was 1^33,800. 

The Model School Building (afterwards known as West College) 
has also been refitted, the first floor as the Treasurer's offices and 
the College Archives, and the second floor as the lecture-room for 
Prof. March, with adjoining room as a private study 

A short distance south-east of South College stands Jenks Phy- 
sical Hall. It is a T shaped structure of blue limestone, two stories 
with Mansard roof, sixty-four feet front and seventy-five in depth. 
It was originally designed for the Chemical Department, and was 
fitted up with laboratories, lecture-room and cabinet. It has been 
recently transferred, however, to the department of Physics, and 
remodeled for this purpose. The firtt floor contains a recitation- 
room and small laboratories for sections ; the second floor, a large 
lecture-room and apartments for apparatus and professors' study ; 
and the third, the large Physical Laboratory, Microscopic-room, 
and the hall of the Society of Physics and Engineering. It was 
erected at a cost of ;^ 22,000. 

The Astronomical Observatory, north of Jenks Hall, and of the 
same material, is the gift of Dr. Traill Green, and was erected at a 
cost of $15,000. It consists of a Tower and two Transit-rooms, 
with lecture-room attached. It is fitted up with a revolving dome 
and telescope, a transit instrument, and other apparatus for the ob- 
servation -of astronomical facts, and for the thorough study of 
Astronomy. 

By far the finest structure, however, on the grounds is Pardee 
Hall. This magnificent building stands on the central plateau of 
the campus, and was erected and equipped for the uses of the 
Scientific Department by its munificent founder, Mr. Pardee, at a 
cost of nearly $300,000. 

The building, begun in 187 1, was completed in 1873, ^rid on the 
2ist of October of that year, was formerly handed over with its 
scientific equipment to the Trustees, in the presence of His Ex- 
cellency, Governor Hartranft ; the State Superintendent of Educa/- 
3 



34 SKETCHES OF THE 

tion, Hon. J. P. Wickersham, LL.D. ; the Synod of Philadelphia, 
and a great assemblage.* 

It consists of one centre building five stories in height, fifty-three 
feet front, and eighty-three feet deep, and two lateral wings, one 
on each side of the centre building, measuring sixty-one feet in 
length and thirty-one in width ; four stories in height, including a 
Mansard roof, the whole terminating in two cross wings, forty-two 
feet front and eighty-four feet deep, and four stories in height. 
The entire length of front, in a straight line, is two hundred and 
fifty-six feet. The material is the Trenton brown stone, with 
trimming of the light Ohio sand stone. It is heated throughout by 
steam and lighted by gas. 



*The dedication of Pardee Plall was a signal event, not only in the history of 
the College, but in that of the whole surrounding region. The day was observed 
as a general holiday in Easton, South Easton and Phillipsburg, and thousands 
of the people participated in the festivities of the occasion. 

Professor R. W. Raymond, Ph. D., a member of the College Faculty, United 
States Commissioner of Mining Statistics, and President of the American Institute 
of Mining Engineers, delivered the oration of the morning in the auditoriumy 
after which a collation was served in the building. In the afternoon the authori- 
ties of the borough and of the adjoining towns, together with the various civic 
and military organizations of the valley, the schools, the fire departments and 
many citizens, formed an imposing procession, and after parading the streets, 
visited the College grounds. At two o'clock P. M-, in the presence of this vast 
throng of nearly ten thousand peoj^Ie, Mr. Pardee, in a modest address, formally 
handed over the keys to President Cattell, who responded in a few fitting 
words. Dr. Coleman then invoked the blessing of God, after which the 
whole assembly united in singing the Doxology, '* Praise God from whom all 
blessings flow." Then followed several short and enthusiastic addresses ; Governoi' 
Hartranft, Edward H. Green, President of the borough council of Easton, 
Major A. B. Howell, Chief Burgess of Easton, Edward F. Stewart, President of 
the Easton School Board, and Ex-Gov. Pollock, President of the Board of Trus- 
tees, were among the speakers. 

Later, the exercises were resumed in the auditorium, where addresses were 
delivered by J. P. Wickersham, LL.D., Rev. Dr. John Harris Jones, President 
of Trevica College, South Wales, Rev. Dr. Robert Knox, of Belfast, Ireland, 
Hon. B. G. Northrup, Secretary of the Connecticut Board of Education, Hon. 
Heister Clymer, of Reading, Pa., Ashbel Welsh, of New Jersey, Rev. Dr. Charles 
S. Robinson, of New York, Dr. A. J. Woeikof, of the Imperial Geographical 
Society of Russia, and others. Many congratulatory letters and telegrams were 
also read from colleges and universities all over the land. The exercises of the 
day were closed by an informal reception in the evening, when the grounds and 
buildings were again thronged by an enthusiastic multitude. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 35 

The first floor is mainly devoted to the study of mining and 
metallurgy ; the second contains the geological and mineralogical 
cabinets, a spacious auditorium, and smaller lecture-rooms, reading- 
rooms, and professors' studies. The third floor is devoted to the 
engineers. The right wing is occupied by the mining engineers. 
A large drawing-room occupies the lateral wing, while the cross 
wing embraces rooms for models and various professional purposes. 
The left wing is occupied by the civil engineers. The lateral 
wing comprises a drawing-room, and the cross wing is divided into 
rooms for lectures, working models, collections and the like. On 
the fourth floor, the same ample provision has been made for the 
chemist. The centre building contains Professors' and Assistants' 
rooms. Technical Collections, Stock-rooms, etc. The lateral 
wings are intended for qualitative and quantitative analysis. 
The cross wing at the extremity of the building is occupied by 
additional laboratories, lecture-rooms, and professors' studies. The 
fifth floor of the centre building is occupied by the laboratories for 
general chemistry. 

In determining what rooms were needed and the best arrange- 
ment of them, similar buildings in Europe, as well as in this coun- 
try, were carefully studied, and liberal provision has been made in 
all the departments of instruction for every aid which has been 
devised for the most thorough and attractive teaching, and also for 
the prosecution of original researches. 

Provision has been made in part for the accommodation of the 
large number of students by the erection of " Students' Homes." 
Six of these occupy the north campus, five of them bearing the 
names of those by whose liberality the College was enabled to pro- 
vide them. They are in their order from west to east, Blair Hall, 
Newkirk Hall, McKeen Hall, Marti en Hall, Powel Hall, 
and East Hall. Except McKeen Hall, which has brown stone 
quoins and window trimmings, with porch, ornamental cornice, 
and a balustrade around the entire roof, they are plain brick build- 
ings, fitted up in suites of rooms for the occupancy of students, 
and for the residence of a family with whom the students may 
board, if they so desire. 

There have also been erected on the College grounds, nine 
houses designed for the residence of Professors, and those previously 
built have been improved and enlarged. 



36 SKETCHES OF THE 

THE FUNDS OF THE COLLEGE. 

The citizens of Easton at their first meeting in 1824, to take 
some definite steps towards the establishment of the College, ap- 
pointed a Committee to draft a Memorial to the Legislature for aid, 
but the account I have already given shows that their expectations 
from this quarter were not fully realized, and the College from the 
start was mainly dependent upon the contributions of its friends. 
These sums were generally small. In the first published list of con- 
tributors (1834), the sums range from several contributions of fifty 
cents to one of five hundred dollars. Seventy were below five 
dollars. The aggregate amounts to ;g5,io3, of which the citizens 
of Easton furnished more than two-thirds. The most generous 
donors to the College in its early history were Col. Thomas McKeen 
and James M. Porter of Easton, and James Lenox of New York City. 

The appeals made to the Legislature were based mainly upon the 
necessity for the State making some provision for the education of 
teachers, and all the aid the College ever received from this source 
seems to have been due to this port of its work, in which, as I have 
already observed (seepage 15), Lafayette College anticipated the 
present system of State Normal Schools To prepare the student 
for " teaching as his ultimate employment for life," was an object 
the Trustees had much at heart, and their report in 1834 asks the 
significant question, " Will the day never come when the profession 
of teachers will be both honorable and profitable, and this class in 
our Colleges be filled with the first men in our land ?" The minutes 
of the Board, however, mention but one appropriation received 
from the State. This is at their meeting April 4t]i, 1834, where 
they acknowledged the warrant of "Gov. Wolf for the sum of 
^4,000." The report for that year refers to an additional grant 
promised by the Legislature for " ^2,000 a year for four years," but 
whether these amounts were paid, the Treastirer's books, which are 
incomplete for these years, do not inform us. 

It is a remarkable fact that Lafayette College in all its history has 
never received a dollar by a direct bequest. In 1871, it received a 
residuary or reversionary bequest of ;^i,7i6 from the estate of John 
Beveridge, one of the Trustees. The College was also made the resi- 
duary legatee by one of the Alumni, H. T. D. Kerr (class of 1856)^ 
but the estate was exhausted before the specific bequests were paid, 
so that during the last fifty years, a period fruitful in bequests to our 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 37 

higher institutions of learning, Lafayette College has received only 
the above-mentioned sum, less than eighteen hundred dollars ! 

As a part of the financial history of the College, the following 
summary of the Treasurer's books, from 1850 to 1864, prepared 
with great labor by Prof. Coffin, and embracing the period from 
the time the College became connected with the Synod until the 
close of President McPhail's administration,* will be not without 
interest to the friends of the College. 

RECEIPTS. 

Cash in the Treasury, October 20, 1850, ...... ^(y-j 2?. 

Whole amount received from subscriptions for Scholarships, . . 71,322 04 
Whole amount received from Students, viz. — Session bills. Matricula- 
tion and Graduation fees, Catalogues and Laws, . . . ' 23,927 15 
Balance of Interest and Dividends, ....... 15,583 55 

Donations for general purposes, ....... 7,374 40 

Donations for building a College Chapel, . . . . . 317 50 

Received from George Walters, April i, 1856 (not ascertained on 

what account), ......... 10 00 

Balance of rents of houses and grounds, ...... 1,793 7' 

Balance due Inspector of College buildings, .... 3 OQ 

Temporary loans to the College, ....... 3,000 00 

^123,398 66 

EXPENDITURES. 

For securing Endowment, i?6,i46 03 

Payment of debts contracted before October 20, 1 850, . . . 9,007 63 

Purchase of grounds about West College (lease having expired), . 1,439 63 

Building Professors' houses, ........ 11,352 21 

Repairs and improvements on College buildings and premises, . 3,574 52 

Investments; — Bonds and Mortgages, 1524,466.67 ; Loans, ;5S 1, 908.83, 26,375 50 

Professors' salaries, including house-rent, ..... 52,096 36 

Amount lost by pick-pocket (July 19, 1855), 150 00 

Amount lost by counterfeit and uncurrent money, .... 47 34 

Treasurer's salary, clerk hire and legal fees, . . , . . 1,511 50 

Incidental expenses and Insurance, ...... 8,516 77 

Library, apparatus and Chemicals, . ... . . . . 2,315 63 

Discrepancies in accounts, and errors, ...... 218 65 

Cash in Treasury, January 20, 1864, ...,., 646 89 

^123,398 66 

*Dr. McLean, the first President of the College nominated by the Synod, was 
elected October 18th, 1850; Dr. McPhail, October 27th, 1857; and Dr. Cattell, 
October 27th, 1863, entering upon his duties in January, 1864, 



38 SKETCHES OF THE 

According to estimates submitted by President McPhail, at his 
resignation in the fall of 1863, the total value of the College pro- 
perty, including grounds, buildings, libraries, apparatus, invested 
funds and outstanding subscriptions, was $88,666, and the income 
from all sources was less than $4,000. 

According to the Treasurer's statement, submitted at the last meet- 
ing of the Board of Trustees, the total value of the College pro- 
perty is now $817,414.75, distributed as follows: 

I. — Non-productive Investments. 

1. Buildings and grounds, ........ $431,413 87 

2. Apparatus, 87,754 67 

3. Libraries and Scientific Collections, ..... 40,266 83 



Total, $559,435 37 

II. — rRODUCTivE Investments. 

1. Dormitories and Students' Homes, . ..... $67,726 37 

2. Houses for Professors, ........ 69,049 29 

3. Amount of other investments, at their par value, (after deduct- 

ing the entire indebtedness of the College,) . . . 121,203 72 

Total, $257,979 38 

It will be seen by this statement that the College possesses its 
magnificent buildings and grounds, its extensive and valuable 
libraries, apparatus, scientific collections, etc., clear of all incum- 
brances, and that it has in addition over $250,000 of productive funds, 
yielding an annual income of about $13,000.* 

*It should, however, be known to all the friends of the College that this sum, 
added to the fees from the students, is very far from being sufficient to meet the 
current expenses of the College. The great and rapid increase in the resources 
of the Institution has created a very general impression that Lafayette College is 
immensely rich. It is rich, perhaps beyond the fondest expectations of its 
founders and early friends ; but in the great and wida field it now occupies, the 
expenditures, even upon the most economical basis, are farlaeyond even its large 
income. The various departments of instruction at Lafayette, with the Post- 
Graduate, Special and Elective Courses of Study, and the necessity, on account 
of the large number of students, for sub-dividing the classes in sections small 
enough to insure thorough drill in the daily recitations, render a large body of 
professors an absolute necessity. Last year the Faculty, exclusive of the Law 
Department, consisted of twenty-eight instructors. It has been the policy of the 
Board of Trustees to maintain in all the departments a complete and effective 
corps of instructors, notwithstanding the large annual deficit which has existed 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 39 

In the history of this remarkable progress we find conspicuous 
examples of most wise and far-seeing munificence. Among those 
who have nobly aided in this work may be mentioned the following 
gentleman, who, besides minor benefactions, have endowed pro- 
fessorships in the sum of ^30,000, William Adamson, of Philadel- 
phia, Thomas Beaver, of Danville, George B Markle, of Philadel- 
phia, and John Welles Hollenback, of Wilkesbarre. Mr. Benjamin 
Douglass, of New York City, has endowed for a term of years the 

for some years past, and which has been made up annually by special contribu- 
tions from the friends of the College, mainly from the Trustees themselves. This 
annual deficit, however, is regarded as a serious hindrance to the further develop- 
ment of the College. It cannot be reduced by diminishing the number of Pro- 
fessors without seriously crippling the thoroughness and efficiency of the instruc- 
tion ; nor can the salaries of the professors be lowered, as they are already upon 
a scale of extreme economy, the salary of the senior professors being (in addition 
to house rent) only ^i,6oo. Moreover, it is certain that the deficit will increase 
with the increasing number of students, as the tuition fees in all Colleges are below 
the cost of the instruction. The Trustees have therefore resolved to pursue the 
only course left for them, and appeal to the friends of the College for a large 
increase of the permanent endowment. The noble benefactions already made to 
the College have established it upon so firm and broad a basis that those to 
whom God has given wealth, and who feel an interest m Christian education, 
have here an inviting field for investments that are sure to yield great and grow- 
ing results in the good cause, Tlie Trustees at their last meeting adopted the 
following minute, and it is hoped that the College may share liberally in the 
large gifts annually made by wealthy people to the cause of education, and thus 
relieved from the necessity of providing year by yenr for a large deficit, may be 
free to expand in certain directions where improvements are still needed: 

" 1st. The Board of Trustees gratefully recognize the increasing prosperity of 
th'e College. They witness with pleasure the large number of students upon its 
rolls, and the evidences of marked efficiency, not only in the departments of 
instruction, but in the administration of all its affairs. 

" 2d. In view of the large expenditures which have been necessary to bring 
the College to its present eminent position among the leading institutions of tlie 
land, it is essential that there should be careful economy in all its disbursements, 
and that the work of instruction sholud be divided among the members of the 
Faculty in such equable manner that the number of professors be reduced to the 
lowest point consistent with the proper working of the several departments ; but 
the Trustees, after a full examination of all the resources and the necessary ex- 
penditures, are also of the opinion that, to maintain the College in its present 
efficiency, an addition to its present endowment of at least five hundred thousand 
dollars in productive funds, is absolutely necessaiy, 

" 3d. The Trustees of the College, therefore, recognizing the great labors and 
success of President Cattell in securing funds for the endowment, as well as his 
distinguished and successful administration of the aft'airs of the College, entitling 
him to the thanks of all friends of Christian education, would respectfully request 
him to undertake this great additional work, pledging to him their fullest confi- 
dence and sympathy, and every aid which it may be in their power to bestow." 



40 SKETCHES OF THE 

chairs for teaching the Latin and Greek in the elective course of 
Christian authors (see page 50), with abundant provision for prizes, 
for the publication of text-books and for the increase of the library 
in this special department. The citizens of Easton contributed, in 
1872, ^22,624, to complete the east wing of South College, and in 
1872, ;g4, 700, towards the new chapel, to which also Mrs. W. 
C. Ferriday and Mrs. Ellen J. Welles (Wyalusing, Pa.) contributed 
each ;^5,ooo ;* Dr. Traill Green erected and furnished the astronom- 
ical observatory. The Treasurer's books, among other contributions 
to the funds of the College, show the following : John A. Brown, 
$20,000 ; John I. Blair, 17,000 ; William E. Dodge and Joseph H, 
Scranton, each $15,000; Barton H. Jenks, Thomas L. McKeen 
and Mrs. William C. Cattell, each $10,0003 Selden T. Scranton, 
5^7,500; Alfred Martien and Benjamin G. Clarke, each $6,000; 
Morris Patterson, Rev. Matthew Newkirk, John Taylor Johnston, 
Alexander Whilldin, Thomas Dickson, G. Dawson Coleman and 
Matthew Baird, each $5,000. 

But it remains to mention the most munificent benefactor of the 
College, one, in fact, to whose gifts and wise counsels the College 
really owes so largely, not only its present efficiency, but its very 
existence. In 1865, when the College was again struggling for its 
life, Mr. Ario Pardee, of Hazelton, Pennsylvania, gave President 
Cattell his cheek for $20,000 ! At the time this donation was 
made, it was the largest sum given by any one man to any educa- 
tional institution in Pennsylvania. This, however, was but the 
beginning of his noble benefactions, which, by successive dona- 

* The efforts made by the Synod of Philadelphia to raise funds for the College 
chapel by collections throughout the churches within its bounds, were not 
attended with much success. In his speech before the Synod in 1870 (previ- 
ously referred to), President Cattell says; 

" When the Synod met at Easton, four years ago, the committee to whom this 
subject was referred made an earnest appeal that 'some scheme be devised by 
which the entire Synod will unite in erecting among the new buildings now 
crowning College Hill a Memorial Chapel;' and upon their report, it was re- 
solved unanimously, ' that on the day of prayer for schools and colleges, or the 
week following, a collection be taken up in all the churches within our bounds 
for the purpose of commencing a fund for the building of a College Chapel.' At 
the meeting next year in Lancaster, it was found that this effort had resulted in 
securing the sum of 5360.21. That year, still stronger resolutions were passed, 
and a special committee of one minister from each Presbytery was appointed to 
carry out the plan. The second and last effort, after deducting the expenses, 
resulted in the additional sum of ^320.601" 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 41 

tions as the needs of the College enlarged, have amounted to 
half a million of dollars! Such princely gifts to the cause 
of education by one actively engaged in business life, have been 
rare indeed, and Mr. Pardee's name is not only enshrined in the 
hearts of all the sons of the College, and of all the friends of edu- 
cation, but it must ever be honored by all men who can appreciate 
such noble and unselfish use of wealth. It was well said by Dr. 
Raymond, at the dedication of Pardee Hall, "Nothing is more 
beautiful than the spectacle of wealth wielded with the strong hand 
and generous heart ; of skill and sagacity brought to bear upon the 
question how to benefit society. Such wealth breeds no danger to 
the community, and ought never to rouse the faintest sigh of envy. 
Every poor man in Pennsylvania has reason to be glad and give 
thanks to-day that Ario Pardee is rich." 

LIBRARY. 

The library was founded in 1832, by contributions of books from 
the friends of the College, and it grew slowly by gifts and small 
purchases. In 1865, the whole number of volumes reported was 
only 2,645. -^ f^s °^ $1.00 a term for the increase of the library, 
and afterwards of ;^2.oo a term for the reading-room and library 
has since been paid by each student, and the fees for matriculation 
and graduation have also in part been appropriated to the same 
object. The income from these sources is now somewhat more 
than ^2,000 a year. The librarian last year reported the addition 
of 989 volumes, of which 797 were bought for ^2,007.16. 

This income has been expended almost wholly in books immedi- 
ately connected with the studies of the course, with a view to buy- 
ing all the working books needed for original investigation in the 
special direction in which each professor has wished to push his 
work. It does not, therefore, add rapidly to the number of volumes, 
but in certain specialties it has served to accumulate one of the. best 
working libraries in the country. The departments in which it is 
best are, 

Anglo-Saxon, Early French, Early and Dialectic English. 

Christian Greek and Latin. 

American History. 

Natural History. 

Chemistry and Mining. 
Large donations of books have been received, among which may 



43 SKETCHES OF THE 

be mentioned those from Rev. David Bishop, at the founding of the 
library; from Hon. T. G. Clemson, a set of the Annales des Mines 
and French works of science ; from Edwin Miller and Ferdinand de 
Lesseps, engineering works ; from Dr. John Curwen, works in Natu- 
ral History and Classical Antiquities. The class of 187 1, established 
a fund for the purchase of Early English Texts. The heirs of C. L. 
Ward, Esq., presented to the College his well-known library of 
about ten thousand choice volumes of general literature, his law 
library and all the books and pamphlets of his American historical 
collection, with his extensive collections of autographs, engravings 
and curiosities. The Hon. Joseph Casey has presented valuable 
series of American Annals and State Papers, and of Legal and 
Congressional Reports. Mr. Benjamin Douglass has made a dona- 
tion for the department of Christian Greek and Latin, from which 
about one thousand dollars have been expended in the purchase of 
the best working editions of such authors and of critical apparatus 
for this study, Messrs. R, L. and A. Stuart have also made valuable 
gifts to this department. 

About 6,000 volumes, consisting of the Dictionaries, Cyclo- 
paedias, Historical and Scientific Serials and other works of refer- 
ence or frequent use, belonging to the library, are displayed in 
cases in the reading room of the College. These books are kept 
accessible to all members of College daily, Sundays excepted , for con- 
sultation during study hours and general reading out of study hours. 

Adequate provision has not yet been made for the proper display 
and use of the rest of the books. The whole number of volumes is 
now about 16,000, scattered through different College buildings, 
and a new building for the library is one of the most pressing needs 
of the College. 

The Washington and Franklin Literary Societies have, in addi- 
tion, well selected libraries aggregating about 6, coo volumes. 

THE CURRICULUM. 

The historical development of the curriculum shows important 
changes in the old classical course arising mainly from the intro- 
duction of the Modern Languages and Natural Sciences.* 

The records do not furnish the material for as complete an analysis 
with respect to the proportional distribution of studies as might he 

* For an account of the Pardee Scientific and Technical Departments, estab- 
lished 1866, see pp. 46, 47, and 52-55. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



43 



Recitations. 


Per cent. 


705 


•35 


1,008 


.50 



307 



•IS 



692 


•345 


938 


.464 


350 


.172 


40 


.02 


660 


.326 


786 


•39 


388 


.192 


40 


.02 


146 


.072 



desired. The following summaries, however, will show the number 
of recitations allotted to each of the main departments of study at 
different periods. The results are also expressed in percentages of 
the whole time. 

From 1842 to 1844. 

Mathematics, including Astronomy and Physics, . 
Ancient Languages, .....' 

Mental and Moral Science, Political Economy, Rhetoric, 
Evidences of Christianity, Belles Lettres, etc., . 

From 1844 to 1851. 
Mathematics, (as before), .... 

Ancient Languages, ..... 

Mental and Moral Science, etc., (as before). 
Chemistry and Natural History, .... 

From 185 i to 1853. 
Mathematics, (as before), .... 

Ancient Languages, ..... 

Mental and Moral Science, etc., (as before), . , 

Chemistry and Natural Historj', .... 
Biblical, ....... 

The Biblical studies consisted of History and Antiquities, Sacred 
Geography, the Greek Testament, Butler's Analogy and the Standards 
of the Church. It was during this period that the College became 
connected with the Synod of Philadelphia ; previously the religious 
studies had been carried on by means of Sabbath Bible-classes and 
lectures. 

P'rom 1853 TO 1857. 

Mathematics, (as before), 

Ancient Languages, 

Mental and Moral Science, etc., (as before), 

Chemistry and Natural History, 

Biblical, . 

From 1857 to 1859. 
Mathematics, (as before). 
Ancient Languages, 

Mental and Moral Science, etc., (as before). 
Chemistry and Natural History, 
Biblical, . 
Modern Languages, 

During this period, in iS57-'58, the College year was divided 
into three terms. In iS56-'57, Trench on the Study of Words was 
introduced; in i857-'58. Fowler's English Language, Anglo-Saxon 



Recitations. 


Per cent. 


608 


.306 


786 


.396 


364 


.188 


76 


.038 


146 


.072 


. 585 


.292 


756 


.38 


431 


.215 


39 


.02 


. 138 


.069 


48 


.024 



44 



SKETCHES OP THE 



and Milton's Paradise Lost. Here begins the philological study of 
English. It is not distinguished, however, in the above table nor 
in the following one from the General English Studies. French 
and German were also introduced this year. In 18^8- ^g, Shakes- 
peare (Julius Caesar) was first studied, in the third term junior 
class. 

From 1859 to 1865. 



Mathematics, (as before), . , 

Ancient Languages, ... 

Mental and Moral Science, etc., (as before), 
Chemistry and Natural History, . 
Bilalical, ..... 
Modern Languages, . . 



Recitations. 


Per cent 


587 


.283 


737 


.356 


439 


.215 


63 


.03 


138 


,066 


96 


'OS 



At the present time the distribution is as follows : 



Modern Languages 



■! 



Mathematics, including Astronomy and Mechanics, 

Ancient Languages, .... 

Biblical, 

English and Anglo-Saxon, 
German and French, 

Mental and Moral Science, 

Political Economy and Constitution, 

Outlines of History, 

Rhetoric and Logic, 

Elocution, . 

Chemistry, , 

Geology, . 

Botany and Zoology, 

Natural Philosophy, 

Mineralogy, 



Hebrew, Blackstone, Archaeology of Literature and Chemistry 
are elective in the senior year, with other studie?, and in the case 
of students who elect them, modify the above results in Mathematics, 
Greek and Modern Languages. 

In addition to the Outlines of History, particular periods in 
Grecian, Roman, English and American history are worked up 
along with the reading of representative authors, as Livy, Tacitus, 
Demosthenes, Shakespeare, etc. More than t/irce hundred recita- 
tions of the course are thus available as a means of special instruc* 
tion in history. 



Recitations. 


Per cent 


588 


.235 


- 857 


.342 


156 


.062 


180 


.073 


158 


/D63 


io8 


.043 


66 


.027 


12 


.005 


Zi 


.013 


154 


/363 


36 


.014 


70 


X>28 


32 


.012 


32 


.012 


22 


.009 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE O^LLEGE. 45 

Classical Geography, Greek and Latin Composition and Grecian 
and Roman Antiquities come in as "side studies," and are referred 
in the above analysis to those branches to which they are most 
akin. 

SCIENTIFIC COLLECTIONS. 

These are extensive and valuable, and are rapidly increasing from 
year to year by gifts from societies and individual donors, and by 
special appropriations in addition to the fees for registration and 
matriculation. 

Among the most valuable of the collections may be mentioned 
the extensive Herbarium, collected mainly by Prof. Porter and his 
assistants during thirty years of enthusiastic labor; it is specially 
rich in Mosses, and is believed to contain the most complete 
Flora of Pennsylvania in existence ; the series of Ward's cele- 
brated casts, illustrating Geology and Palaeontology, together 
with the specimens purchased for the College by Prof. Hitchcock 
in Europe ; the valuable collection of Coal Fossils presented by 
the Scientific Association of Pottsville, and tlie Models of the coal 
region made and presented to the College by P. W. Shaefer, Esq. ; 
the splendid Mineralogical collections of Rev. Dr. E. R. Beadle of 
Philadelphia, and of Dr. Joseph K. Swift of Easton ; also the Jane- 
way collection ; the collection of Northern Antiquities, pur- 
chased by Dr. Beadle in Denmark ; and the complete collection of 
Swedish Iron Ores, with the products of their reduction, presented 
by the Jern Kontaret of Sweden. 

The apparatus in the Departments of Physics and Applied Me- 
chanics, the instruments used in the Departments of Astronomy 
and Engineering, and the scientific equipment of the numerous and 
extensive laboratories, fairly meet the demands of advanced in- 
struction in these Departments ; a special feature, however, is the 
series of one thousand three hundred and twenty-two Wall Charts, 
executed at the College by Mr. G. Garnier, under the the direction 
of the Professors in the Departments of Astronomy, Chemistry, 
Physics and Applied Mechanics, Metallurgy, Engineering, and 
Natural History. In addition to Schroeder's Models in Descrip- 
tive Geometry, there are valuable models in Machine Drawing, 
Stone Cutting, Crystallography and Architecture. 



THE PRESENT ORGANIZATION 

AND 

COURSES OF STUDY. 



The old standard curriculum of under-graduate studies has been 
adhered to throughout with a judicious regard for the interests of 
classical culture. Changes have occurred, it is true, and important 
additions have been made to this course, but only such as have 
seemed necessary in view of the just demands of changing times. 

In her recent remarkable growth, however, Lafayette has far ex- 
ceeded the limits of this single course, and has indeed, by her vari- 
ous Schools or Departments of Instruction, advanced to the rank of 
a University. The schedules now offer seven distinct courses of 
study, leading to degrees, as follows : 

I.— THE CLASSICAL COCRSE. 

The graduates in this course receive the usual degree of Bachelor 
of Arts. 

The main characteristics of this course may be seen by reference 
to the historical outline of it in the foregoing pages. In its present 
relation to the other departments, it is kept in its integrity, and 
left free to its own development. It is, however, regarded as em- 
bodying the standard means of liberal training, and is therefore the 
course to which the others conform, so far as is consistent with 
their specific aim, in their general spirit and design. It is fully 
equal in organization and thoroughness to the under-graduate 
course of our best Colleges, and affords the amplest facilities for 
the study of the Ancient Languages. 

IL— THE GENERAL SCIENTIFIC COURSE.* 

Graduates receive the degree of Bachelor of Science; or, for those 
taking the elective course in Latin, Bachelor of Philosophy. 

This course is parallel with the Classical Course of the College, 
except that the Philological Study of the English and other Modern 
Languages takes the place of the Ancient Languages. It is de- 

*This and the three courses which follow are endowed by Mr. Pardee, and 
constitute the Pardee Scientific Department of Lafayette College. 

46 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 47 

signed, therefore, for those who wish to study the Natural Sciences, 
Mathematics, Modern Languages and Literature, History, Mental 
and Moral Philosophy, Rhetoric and Logic, as a substantial basis 
of knowledge and scholarly culture, and who would be glad to enjoy 
the cultivation and learned habits and associations of College life, 
but who will not study Greek and Latin.* 

III.— THE COURSE IN CIVIL ENGINEERING. 

Graduates receive the degree of Civil Engineer. 

This course is designed to give professional preparation for the 
location, construction and superintendence of railways, canals and 
other public works ; the trigonometrical and topographical surveys 
of States, counties, etc. ; the surveys of rivers, lakes, harbors, etc. ; 
and the direction of their improvement ; the design, construction 
and use of steam engines and other motors, and of mechanics in 
general ; and the construction of geometrical, topographical and 
ttiachine drawings. 

IV.— THE COURSE IN MINING AND METALLURGY. 

Graduates receive the degree of Mining Engineer. 

This course offers the means of special preparation for exploring 
undeveloped mineral resources, and for taking charge of mining 
and metallurgical works. It includes instruction in Engineering 
as connected with the survey and construction of mines, with the 
construction and adjustment of machines, and with machine draw- 
ings ; also, instruction in Chemistry and Assaying as applied to the 
manipulation of ores and other minerals. 

v.— THE COURSE IN CHEMISTRY. 

Graduates receive the degree o{ Analytical Chemist. 

This course includes text-book study, lectures and laboratory 
practice, every facility for which is found in the extensive labora- 
tories of Pardee Hall. Particular attention is given to the Chemis- 
try of Agriculture, Medicine, Metallurgy and the Manufacturing 
Processes. 

VI.— POST-GRADUATE COURSES. 

Designed for graduates of Colleges or Scientific Schools, and 
others having suitable preparation. Such persons may pursue ad- 



*For further remarks upon this course, see page 52, 



48 SKETCHES OF THE 

vanced studies in any Department, under the direction and instruc- 
tion of the Professor in that Department, and may have use of the 
laboratories, apparatus, collections and libraries of the College 
while prosecuting their researches. Those who complete a three 
years' course in these post-graduate studies receive the degree of 
Doctor of Philosophy. 

VII.— THE DEPARTMENT OF LAW. 

Graduates receive the degree q{ Bachelor of Laws * 
This department is designed to furnish a thorough, liberal and 
practical system of legal education. The plan embraces the vari- 
ous branches of the common law, equity, constitutional and public 
law. Particular attention is also given to the civil law, medical 
jurisprudence, and such historical and philosophical subjects as are 
closely related and necessary to a thorough and scientific legal 
training. 

The courses of instruction in these several schools, together with 
the methods of teaching, the facilities, text-books, and other par- 
ticulars, are given in the annual catalogue, to which the reader is 

*It appears from the records that a Law School in connection with the College 
was a feature of the plan, cherished by the authorities even from the first ; and 
so early as 1841, and for several years thereafter, the name of Hon. James M. 
Porter appears in the catalogues as " Professor of Jurisprudence." In the 
enumeration of students also during that period, several are set down from year 
to year as " Law Students.'' Several years later, about 1850, Hon. Washington 
McCartney, who was also connected with the College, carried on a Law School 
in Easton for several years with much success. 

In recent years the Alumni and friends of the College have more and more 
felt the need of such a department, and last year the authorities established the 
Law Course. It was formally opened in the auditorium of Pardee Hall, October 
6th, 1875, at which time an inaugural address was delivered by the Dean of 
the Faculty, Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick, formerly President Judge of the Third 
Judicial District of Pennsylvania. The following members constitute the Faculty : 

Rev. William C. Cattell, D. D., President. 

Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick, A. M., Dean of the Law Department, and Pro- 
fessor of Elementary Law and History of Jurisprudence. 

M. H. Jones, A. M., Professor of Municipal Law. 

Traill Green, M. D., LL.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence. 

Francis A. March, LL.D., Lecturer on Constitutional and Public Law and 
the Roman Law. 

E. S. Barrick, a. M., LL.B., Instructor in Municipal Law. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 49 

referred for further details. I shall now speak only of a few topics 
in which Lafayette College presents distinctive features : and first 
with reference to 

BIBLICAL INSTRUCTION. 

The systematic and thorough study of the Holy Scriptures 
.throughout the courses at Lafayette, is a fact that has frequently 
been noted with pleasure by the friends of sound learning. Any 
attempt to trace tliis feature of the curriculum to its origin, takes 
us back to the very beginning. The College was founded and 
fostered, as we have seen, by men of eminent piety, who had a pro- 
found sense of the worth of the Bible, not only as a book of moral 
guidance, but as one whose study was admirably adapted for the 
purposes of liberal culture. With such reverence for the book, and 
such views of its educational value, they were not likely to neglect 
its claim to become an important feature of the curriculum. Later 
in its history, the College came under the care of the Synod, and 
important changes were made, mainly, however, in tlie direction of 
systemizing the Biblical studies. 

That these early traditions have not been forgotten in the recent 
growth of the College, may be seen at once from the present 
schedule of studies. Indeed, President Cattell's inaugural address 
in 1864 was mainly devoted to this very subject. From this mas- 
terly plea for the introduction of the Bible as a text-book in a course 
of liberal studies, I may be permitted to quote here a single sen- 
tence : "Whatever may be the value of other books, we contend 
that the Bible surpasses them all, and that the course of study 
in every Christian College should be so arranged, that, while 
its general contents should engage the attention of all candidates 
for the first degree, certain portions of it, in the original tongues, 
should be studied with at least as much thoroughness as is given 
to any classic writer, and that this special study of the Booicshould 
be an addition to such collateral instruction as may be given in 
the other departments, especially Mental and Political Philosophy, 
Ethics, Archeology and History." 

The scheme of Biblical instruction at present will be seen from 
the following paragraphs, which I take from the catalogue : 

The New Testament is used as a text-book for the regular daily recitations in 
Greek during the two terms of the Classical course. The Gospel according to 
Mark is the study of one term, and a Greek harmony of all the Gospels of a 
4 



so 



SKETCHES OF THE 



second term. The life and words of Christ are thus made the centre of Biblical 
study. 

On Monday morning, throughout the year, each of the classes has a Biblical 
ex rcise. In these the Assembly's Catechism is studied. In the Freshman year, 
a general view of the contents of the Bible, and of each book, is given, with 
special attention to Chronology, History and Geography. The Bible in English, 
and Coleman's Geography of the Bible, are used as text-books. In the Sopho- 
more year, the Acts of the Apostles are read in the original Greek, and special 
study given to the lives and labors of the Apostles, and to the origin and antiqui- . 
ties of the Christian Church. In the Junior year, the Epistle to the Romans is 
studied in the original Greek, both as to language and doctrine, with much care 
and iteration. In the Senior year, a daily recitation, for one term, is devoted to 
the critical study of the language of the Gospels, both the original Greek and the 
English of our standard version. In this year are also studied the Old Testa- 
ment in the original Hebrew (an elective study) ; the histoiy of translations of 
the Bible, especially the history of the English Bible, its merits and influence } 
the evidences of Christianity, with Butler's Analogy and the Rule of Faith. 

Throughout the course, the language of the English version is constantly ex- 
amined and referred to as standard English. In Political Philosophy, reference 
is made to he Hebrew Commonwealth. The truths taught in the Bible in rela- 
tion to the character, powers and duties of man, are inculcated as fundamental 
in Mental and Moral Philosophy, and the Philosophy of History is identified 
with the History of Redemption. 

It is designed to make the Bible the central object of study in the whole Col- 
lege course. 

The students of all the under-graduate courses engage in the 
Monday morning exercises throughout; those of the Scientific 
Department, however, studying the Acts of the Apostles in English 
and the Epistle to the Romans in German. 

THE DOUGLASS COURSE IN THE CHRISTIAN CLASSICS* 

Another feature kindred to the one above noted is seen in the 
recent enlargement of the Classical Department, by the addition of 
an elective course known as the Douglass Course. In 1872, Ben- 
jamin Douglass, Esq., a gentleman of wealth and learning, a warm 
friend and patron of the College, proposed to the Board to endow, 
for a term of years, a course in the Christian Classics, that students 
for the ministry and others who desired might enjoy the full advan- 
tages of philological training in the noble languages of antiquity, 
and pursue the Christian instead of the Pagan literature. The offer 
was accepted, and the course accordingly established. Instructors 
were provided and classes organized in 1872. 

Arrangements were at once made for the issue of suitable text- 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 5 1 

books to answer the need created by the new course. The work 
was undertaken by Prof. March, who still has it in charge. Under 
his editorship, four volumes* of the series have already been issued, 
and others are in preparation. The following is taken from the 
publisher's notice : 

" It is remarkable that no place has been given in the schools and colleges of 
England and America to the writings of the early Christians. For many cen- 
turies, and down to what is called the Pagan Renaissance, they were the common 
linguistic study of educated Christians. The stern piety of those times thought 
it wrong to dally with the sensual frivolities of heathen poets, and never imagined 
it possible that the best years of youth shojuld be spent in mastering the refine- 
ments of a mythology and life which at first they feared and loathed, and which 
at last became as remote and unreal to them as the Veda is to us. Classical 
Philology, however, took its ideal of beauty from pagan Greece, and it has filled 
our schools with those books which are its best representatives. 

" The modern Science of Language has again changed the point of view. It 
gives the first place to truth : it seeks to know man, his thoughts, his growth ; it 
looks on the literature of an age as a daguerreotype of the age; it values books 
according to their historical significance. The writings of the early Christians 
embody the history of the most important events known to man in language not 
unworthy of the events, and the study of Latin and Greek as vehicles of Christian 
thought should be the most fruitful study known to philology, and have its place 
of honor in the University Course." 

And the following from the address of Prof. March, President 
of the American Philological Association, delivered at Hartford, 
July 14th, 1874: 

" If these standards be well set, if truth is more beautiful than beauty, if power 
is more graceful than grace, if those books are the most valuable records which 
phototype the most valuable events in the history of man, if those books are the 
highest educational powers which contain the noblest delineations of the noblest 
characters, there would seem to be one class of authors who have not been used 
to the full. I mean the early Christian writers in Greek and Latin. It is the 
great fact of history that the sensualism of Rome and Greece, the best side of 
which Horace has so well sung, gave place to self-abnegation, to heroism, to a 
virtue which rejoiced in pain and suffering for love of truth. To read the ex- 
pression of this new character, when that expression was action, and a man put 
his life and death on each word, is high reading. 

" The Latin hymns, too, have the right ring. There is no original poetry in 
the heathen Latin verses. The cultivation of the so-called classic age was but 
superficial. The meters were imported from Greece, and rehearsed to please the 
Greeklings. The repetition of these Greek prettinesses never roused the Roman. 

•^" Latin Hymns, with English Notes ; The Ecclesiastical History of Eusebius, 
the first Book and Selections ; Tertullian, Select Works ; and Athenagoras. 



52 SKETCHES OF THE 

His character was stern, hard and fierce. His mind was bent on empire. Death 
did not daunt him. To suffer and die with rejoicing for truth suited men of the 
blood of Regulus and Curtius, and aroused their faculties at last to the height of 
song. The love of Christ melted them. They burst the shackles of the Greek 
meters, and shook off the stiffness of the Latin syntax, and sang the early Christian 
hymns It is strange thai our children should spend years on the faint Homeric 
echoes of Virgil, and commit to memory the graceful epicureanism of Horace, 
and never see the Dies Irae. There is no ode of Horace, or 'any other ode of a 
heathen Roman, that on the ground of its power, its harmony, its influence, its 
fame, has a hundredth part of the claim to the careful study of our scholars." 

The instruction in the classics of this course is the same in its 
main disciplinary and philological features as in the old course, and 
the classical students elect whether they will study Greek and Latin 
in the Christian or pagan writings. 

THE GENERAL SCIENTIFIC COURSE. 

I would also call special attention to the General Scientific 
Course, as offering a system of thorough liberal culture based upon 
the study of the Natural Sciences, Modern Languages and Mathe- 
matics. 

The munificent endowment of Mr. Pardee enabled the authorities 
to establish this course in 1866. 

Its design, as already indicated, was to furnish a system of in- 
struction that should be fully equivalent in general information and 
scholarly culture to the classical course, but without the ancient 
languages. Anglo-Saxon, English, German and French are there- 
fore substituted for Latin and Greek. These languages are pur- 
sued in the light of Modern Philology, with the systematic ' 
thoroughness which we are accustomed to associate with classical 
studies. 

That there is a large class who prefer such lines of study, is evi- 
dent from the success of the course at Lafayette, and at other insti- 
tutions of our own and sister States where similar courses have since 
been established. 

Tne education heretofore afforded by our Colleges, deriving its 
main elements from the ancient languages, seems to many to have 
too little contact with the living present. Recent statistics* show 
that, notwithstanding the largely increased number of Colleges in 

*See President Cattell's Address before the Synod of Philadelphia, 1870, 
where he refers to President Barnard's tables. 



HTSTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 53 

our country, the number of students in proportion to the population 
has been steadily decreasing for the last thirty years; while the 
number of young men who could afford an education, as well as the 
general interest in educational subjects, has been on the increase 
for the same period. And not alone with young men who should 
throng our college halls, but with a large class of scholars, there is 
a growing indifference to the language and literature of antiquity. 
Ancient thought is so remote from us, and belongs to conditions of 
civilization so different from our own, that classical education, it is 
thought, is encumbered with a great deal that is only in the most 
indirect manner, if at all, pertinent, to modern life. Of course, 
there is much to be said the other way. The advocates of classical 
study may indeed urge this very remoteness as one of the main rea- 
sons why the products of ancient genius in the noble languages 
which enshrine them should ever remain the basis of a broad and 
thorough liberal culture; But the fact remains of a decided and 
growing preference on the part especially of those who, in the 
formation of their minds, have come under the influence of modern 
science, for those lines of study that have a modern outlook. " Our 
oldest and best colleges have made large concessions to this de- 
mand, in some cases abridging the Latin and Greek, in others pro- 
viding elective studies in the upper classes. It seemed best to the 
authorities of Lafayette to squarely meet this demand, and thus 
leave the old classical culture unrestricted in its own development. 
They therefore added a new course, pure and simple, with no Latin* 
and Greek at all, but with an adequate amount of philological 
study, having for its basis Modern Languages, and especially the 
English." (President Cattell's address before the Synod.) 

Great care has been taken that the new course shall not be 
removed from the old landmarks. Coincident recitations and lec- 
tures, and in every way as many points of contact as possible, have 
been secured, and the old approved methods of instruction kept up 
throughout. The course has been carried on with earnestness and 
vigor, and has more than realized the expectations of the founders 
in its gratifying success. 

I have noted from the present schedule the proportional distribu- 
tion of studies in this course. It is as follows : 



*By a feature of the course just announced, students may hereafter substitute 
Latin for French or German. 



54 



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Mathematics, Astronomy, Mechanics and Physics, 
Drawing, ...... 

{English and Anglo-Saxon, 
French, . , 

German, 
Biblical, ..... 

Mental and Moral Philosophy, 
Political Economy, Constitution of the United States, 

and Outlines of History, . . . 

Rhetoric, Logic and Elocution, 
f Chemistry, 



Natural Science, -j 



Botany and Zoology, 



Recitations. 


Per cent 


649 


.249 


1 10 


.042 


. 394 


.152 


. 275 


.106 


237 


.091 


156 


.06 


108 


.041 


78 


.029 


189 


.P72 


154 


.059 


140 


.054 


70 


.027 


46 


.018 



I Geology, 

[ Mineralogy, . . 

The following table presents the General Scientific Course 
for the year 1875-6, taken from the current catalogue : 

FRESHMAN YEAR. 
FIRST TERM. 

Algebra, Loomis's (continued) ; Stereotomy; Elementary Drawing; French or 
Latin; English, March's Method; English Composition; Chemistry with Lab- 
oratory Practice ; Lectures on Health ; Old Testament ; Coleman's Biblical 
Geography. 

SECOND TERM. 

Geometry, Loomis's (continued) ; Drawing, Plain Problems ; French, German 
or Latin; Chemistry with Laboratory Practice; English Composition; Old 
Testament ; Coleman's Biblical Geography. 

THIRD TERM. 

Algebra (completed) ; Geometry (completed) ; Geometrical Drawing ; Modem 
Languages or Latin; Mineralogy; English Composition; New Testament; Cole- 
man's Biblical Geography. 

Throughout the Year. — Declamations, and written Translations into English 
from French and German (by the candidates for the degree of B. S.) or from 
Latin (by the candidates for the degree of B. Ph.) 

SOPHOMORE YEAR. 

FIRST TERM. 

Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical; Mensuration, Loomis's; Geometrical 
Drawing ; French, German or Latin ; Study of Words, Trench ; English, Bunyan ; 
Chemistry (optional) ; Acts of the Apostles. 

SECOND TERM, 

Conic Sections (Coffin's); Topographical Drawing (optional); German or 
Latin; Botany; Zoology; Rhetoric; English, Spenser; Chemistry, (optional); 
Acts of the Apostles, 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 55 

THIRD TERM. 

Analytical Geometry ; Differential and Integral Calculus ; Navigation and 
Surveying; Botany; Zoology; English, Chaucer; French; German; Chemistry 
(optional); Acts of the Apostles. 

Throughout the Year, — Declamations and Themes. 

JUNIOR YEAR. 

FIRST TERM. 
Mechanics; French or German; English, Bacon; Chemistry (optional); Zoology; 
Botany ; New Testament Epistles. 

SECOND TERM. 
Physics (begun); Zoology; Botany; Anglo-Saxon, March's Grammar and 
Reader; English, Milton; Constitution of the United States ; Political Philosophy ; 
New Testament Epistles. 

THIRD TERM. 
Physics (completed) ; Modern Languages or Latin ; Anglo-Saxon (continued) ; 
English, Shakespeare ; New Testament Epistles. 

Throughout the Year, — Declamations, Themes, and Written Debates. 

SENIOR YEAR. 

FIRST TERM. 

Mental Philosophy (begun); Astronomy (begun); English Literature; Modem 

Languages or Latin ; Modern Literature ; Anatomy and Physiology ; Rule of 

Faith, 

SECOND TERM. 

Mental Philosophy (completed) ; Political Economy ; Rhetoric ; Logic ; Moral 

Philosophy ; Geology ; Mineralogy ; Modern Languages, Astronomy, Chemistry, 

Blackstone, Elective ; Evidences of Christianity. 

THIRD TERM. 

Geology; History; Architecture; Philosophy of Mathematics, Archaeology of 
Literature, Elective; Comparative Philology; Chemistry, Blackstone, Modern 
Languages, Elective ; Butler's Analogy. 

Throughout the Year. — Themes and Extemporaneous Speaking. 

THE LINGUISTIC STUDY OF ENGLISH. 

Another important distinctive feature, and the last to which I shall 
now call attention, is the study of our own tongue. It will be observed 
that we do not mean by this the ordinary exercises of classes in 
English, as grammar, parsing and the rhetorical and literary criti- 
cism of authors merely, but the thorough and systematic philological 
study of the language. A separate Professorship in this department 
was established, and the English classics introduced into the cur- 
riculum in 1857, Lafayette being the first American College to thus 
recognize the claims of our own language and literature. The 
English language is here associated with Comparative Philology, 
and thus made the centre of linguistic study. 



56 SKETCHES OF THE 

The method pursued in this department, which has received the 
most favorable notice from eminent edlicators everywhere,* may be 
best presented in a general way by an extract from the catalogue : 
" The Englisli language is studied in the same way as the Latin and 
Greek. An English classic is taken up. The text is minutely ana- 
lyzed, the idioms explored, and synonyms weighed ; the mythology, 
biography, history, metaphysics, theology, geography, are all looked 
up. The rhetorical laws of English composition, and the principles 
of epic and dramatic art are applied to Milton, Shakespeare and 
other English classics, line by line. The character of the author, 
and his life and times, are studied, and an attempt is made to com- 
prehend these great representative works in their relations to the 
English literature and the English race. The text is also made the 
foundation of more general study of language ; the origin and his- 
tory of recurring words, the laws by which words grow up from 
their roots in our language, the laws by which changes from one 
language to another are governed, are stamped on the mind by con- 

The following extract will show the general tone of comment by learned men 
so early as 1870, upon the English course at Lafayette. It is taken from an 
article in the British Quarterly for October of that year, entitled, " The Higher 
Education of the United States :" 

" A distinctive feature worth mentioning is seen in the curriculum of Lafayette 
Colletre, at Easton, in Pennsylvania. This is not one of the largest institutions 
of the kind, but it is eminently distinguished by the intelligence and zeal which 
pervade its arrangements, and make themselves felt in the success of the teach- 
in<T. For some years past, under the able direction of Professor March, the 
English language has been made a prominent feature in the programme. The 
Professor treats the English author chosen for study — Milton, for instance — as a 
competent classical teacher does Homer or Virgil. The text is minutely ana- 
lyzed, the mythological, historical and metaphysical allusions carefully investi- 
gated and appreciated, parallel passages from English authors of different periods 
adduced, and the rules of composition in poetry or prose illustrated. As to the 
lanrruage itself, independently of the thought conveyed by it, iiwestigations are 
conducted into the origin, value and chronological history of the words, their 
formation, etc. ; and, in short, into everything which belongs to the domain of 
comparative philology. Nowhere else is the subject treated with equal compe- 
tence and success." 

To which may be added, among the more recent notices of the course, one 
from the London Athaeneum : 

" The studies of a philological character carried on at Lafayette College, are 
not surpassed in thoroughness by those which we are accustomed to associate 
with German univcrsilies." 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 57' 

tinual iteration J and an attempt is made to ground all these facts' 
and laws in laws of mind, and of the organs of speech." 

All the students take up the studies of this department, but most 
of all those of the General Scientific Course, where they are re- 
garded to a considerable extent as a substitute for the culture derived' 
from the study of Latin and Greek as it is usually pursued in our 
Colleges. An outline of the actual work done in this course, there- 
fore, will better exhibit the plan in some of its details. 

In the Freshman class, there is first of all a thorough drill in 
analysis, parsing and the syntax of sentences. This is the basis of 
the future work, and a complete mastery of the general principles 
of syntax, and skill in the solution of familiar idioms is brought 
constantly into requisition. Then before the more advanced work- 
in philology is undertaken, other languages are studied. French 
and German (in the Classical course Latin and Greek) come in as 
parts of the organized scheme of linguistic study, and are so pur- 
sued as to become a means of special culture in English. 

Li the Sophomore year, they take up in the first term Trench on 
the Study of Words; also Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, in connec- 
tion with which Fowler's English Grammar is studied. The gram- 
mar subjects for this term are Syntax, Grammatical Equivalents, - 
Rhetorical Forms and Historical Elements, on which daily recita- 
tions are heard, and the lessons learned are constantly illustrated '■ 
by the text under review. The whole story of the Pilgrim's Pro- 
gress is read, the allegorical meaning called for part by part, and ' 
salient doctrinal points noticed. 

The staple of daily drill, however, is found in connection with ' 
the minute and careful treatment of selected passages. These are 
studied clause by clause and word by word. The syntax is first 
made clear, then words are taken up ; synonyms and phrases gram- 
matically equivalent brought into comparison and the student taught 
to feel an intelligent preference for one or another form of expres- 
sion as it may promote perspicuity, liveliness or other traits of a • 
clear and vigorous style. In the treatment of single words also the 
German and French are called for, and as far as practicable in the 
Scientific Course, the Latin ; the laws of change, the derivation, the ' 
root, the radical idea, kindred words, the primary meaning, changes ' 
in the meaning with the connection of thought, together with surh ' 
other lines of inquiry as are suggested by Trench, as, indications • 
of history, character, moral suggestions and the like; poetical' 



58 SKETCHES OF THfi 

forms of frequent occurrence are also specially noted, and the 
collocation of words discussed, both with respect to syntax and the 
rhythmical cadences of speech. 

In connection Avith this daily drill, tlie life and times of Bunyan 
are discussed in writing by each member of the class, and his dic- 
tion compared with that of other standard works and especially 
with the Bible. In this part of the work students are judiciously 
directed by questions and references, but are expected to look up 
information everywhere. 

This system of daily drill on the best passages, and weekly essays 
on topics growing out of the discussion of the life and times of the 
author is found to lead the student on by sure and rapid steps to an 
intelligent appreciation of the author's works, his place in litera- 
ture, and on the whole to the best mastery of his genius. 

The same general plan is pursued progressively throughout the 
course, with changes from term to term, in the topics embraced in 
the drill. 

The Sophomores (second term) read Spenser's Faery Queen, 
with the same concentration upon representative passages j the spe- 
cial drill topics being Derivation, Romance of Chivalry and Spen- 
serian Stanza. In the third term, Chaucer (Canterbury Tales) is 
the basis of work. Several of the tales are read and discussed, but 
the famous Prologue is the special subject of study and philological 
drill. All the results of previous work are kept constantly in review, 
Tliis is an emphatic feature uf the method. "A line of questions 
once begun is always kept up." The special drill topics this term 
are Phonetic Elements, Orthographic Elements, a review of Histori- 
cal Elements and Criticism of uncertain Text. 

The Juniors (first term) read Bacon's Essays with the same care 
and iteration. During the second term they study Anglo-Saxon, in 
which subject the classes have, since 1870, used Prof. March's Gram- 
mar and Reader. They also read Milton's Paradise Lost. The Clas- 
sical and General Scientific students here recite together (as they do 
in all the subsequent Anglo-Saxon and English studies of the courses)* 
The special objective points are Punctuation, Poetical Forms and 
Epic Art. There is, however, the same round of daily drill, with 
increased attention to Comparative Philology, the courses giving 
mutual aid in supplying the materials for the research. In the 
third •term, Anglo-Saxon is continued, and Shakespeare's play 
of Julius Caesar is read, with special attention to the Etymology 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 59 

of Pronouns, Pronominal Elements, Instinctive Forms, Dramatic 
Art and Creative Power in Language. 

In the Senior year the first term is given to a more rapid and 
general survey of English literature by means of a Compendium and 
class discussions and conversations. In the second term a repre- 
sentative work of a representative author, selected by the Professor, 
is studied with a view to more extended researches in philology and 
criticism, and one elaborate essay by each member of the class, to 
be handed in at the close of the term. What is known as the 
Fowler Prize is awarded on the basis. of this term's work. During 
the third term, Senior year. Prof. Whitney's Lectures on Language 
are studied. The work of the entire course in Comparative Philo- 
logy is reviewed and co-ordinated, and advanced work pursued by 
means of lectures and class discussions. 

Such in brief outline is the plan of the course in English ; but 
the wisdom, skill and success with which it is pursued and realized 
can be but imperfectly represented to those who have not observed 
the method in its actual workings. Prof. March, to whom we are 
indebted for the rise of Anglo-Saxon studies, and this admirable 
method of pursuing the English classics, is known as a plain man 
of plain words, who drives right at his point and seldom misses it. 
As an educator he is earnest, thorough and vigorous, and his work 
is chai'acterized by a straightforward energy which secures the inte- 
rest of students, and stimulates the dullest as well as the brightest to 
vigorous exertion. It is perhaps not too much to say, that in no 
class in any College is better work done by the young men than in 
his, nor with a more genuine scholarly enthusiasm. He will take 
the little speech of Flavius that opens the play of Julius Caesar, and 
engage the class for an hour upon it, during which time, though it 
may seem all too short to them, they will have gleaned with him 
far and near, and brought in rich -burdens from many fields. It is 
a matter of surprise to the student how many sources of knowledge 
are compassed in these rapid excursions. The classic page itself is 
but the starting point ; from it they go forth in every direction ; to 
Rome, and the early times of the empire ; to the court of Elizabeth, 
and the history of her reign; to Shakespeare's masterly develop- 
ment of human character; to dramatic art, its aims, rules and de- 
vices ; and upon the manifold lines of linguistic investigation ; the 
author's diction, the influences that determine it, the adaptation to 
character ; the forms and relations of sentences ; the growth, history. 



6o SKETCHES OF THE 

uses and relations of words ; and so to the psychology and physiology 
of speech. 

These topics, many of which, as ordinarily discussed, might seem 
abstruse and unintelligible, are opened up and illustrated by easy 
and natural questions growing out of the passage ; so that a know- 
ledge of the most important principles of art and linguistic science 
is grounded in and associated with the forms of our daily speech. 

One is forcibly reminded of the words of Arnold : " What a 
treat it would be to teach Shakespeare to a good class of young 
Greeks in regenerate Athens; to dwell upon him, line by line and 
word by word ; and so to get all his pictures and thoughts leisurely 
into one's mind, till I verily think one would, after a time, almost 
give out light in the dark, after having been steeped, as it were, in 
such an atmosphere of brilliance." 

Treated in this manner, the English not only offers a good field 
for a most thorough grammatical, rhetorical and literary discipline, 
but also as the centre of linguistic studies, and pursued co-ordi- 
nately with Anglo-Saxon, Latin, Greek, French and German, is a 
great aid in that larger field of learning which modern philology 
enables us to embrace by the study of languages. 

THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION. 

This Society, founded September, 1845, is composed of graduates 
of the College, and such cf their classmates (who left College before 
graduation, and in good standing) as may have been elected. 
The objects of the association are to continue the relations of 
friendly and cordial intimacy which exist among students of the 
same institution, and to keep alive their interest in Alma Maier, 
Local sections are formed from time to time at remote points where 
a number of alumni are gathered. The annual meeting is held on 
Tuesday preceding commencement, when an oration is delivered, 
and the business of the society is transacted. The following is a 
list of the orators, as far as can be ascertained : 
1843 — Rev. James W. Wood, Class of 1837 

1846— Rev. J. H. Brakeley, Ph. D., ** " 1839 

1847— Hon. Wm. E. Barber, " " 1840 

1848— Rev. Prof. Chas, Elliott, D. D., " " 1840 

1853— Rev. Prof. Wm. Henry Green, D. D., " " 1840 

1854— Edward F. Stewart, Esq., <' " 1839 

1855— Rev. Prof. Chas. Elliott, D. D., ** " 1840 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 6 1 

1856 — Nathaniel Newkirk, M. D., Class of 1840 

1858— Rev. Charles J. Jones, " " 1846 

1S59 — Rev. James W. Wood, " " 1837 

1866 — H. T. Lee, Esq. (Commemorative address), " " i860 

1869 — James P. Boyd, Esq. (Poem), " " 1859 

1870— Rev. John C. Wilhelm (Poem), " " 1857 

1 87 1 — Rev. J. E. Nassau (Oration), " " 1846 

** —Rev. N. S. McFetridge (Poem), " " 1864 

1872— Rev. S. A. Gayley, " " 1847 

1874 — James P. Boyd, Esq., " " 1859 

1875— Hon. Robert P. Allen, " " 1855 

The officers of the Association for the year 1875-6 are: 
President — Rev. Geo. C. Heckman, D D., class of 1845, Presi- 
dent of Hanover College, Indiana. 

Vice-President — J. W. Wood, A. M., class of 1864. 
Treasurer— Samuel L. Fisler, A. M., class of i86i. 
Secretary— Prof. Selden J. Coffin, Ph. D., class of 1858. 
Clerk, Oscar J. Harvey, Esq., class of 1871. 

THE WASHINGTON AND FRANKLIN LITERARY 
SOCIETIES. 

Of these I have already made brief historical mention (see pages 
12-13). Their weekly meetings are held on Wednesday evenings, 
and the usual opportunities are afforded for literary and forensic 
culture, and for acquiring a familiarity with the parliamentary rules 
common to deliberative bodies. To afford an opportunity to pre- 
pare for the duties required by these societies, the members are 
excused on Wednesday afternoons from College exercises. 

On the day preceding Commencement the Literary Societies 
hpld reunion meetings in the forenoon, and an oration is delivered 
before them in the evening, the societies alternating in the choice 
of the orator.* 

THE BRAINERD MISSIONARY SOCIETY. 

To this I have also briefly alluded (see page 13). Its primary 
object was to foster a missionary spirit and disseminate among the 
students a knowledge of missionary work. It was, however, for 
years the only religious organization of the College, and its influence 

* For list of the Annual Orators, see page 65. 



62 SKETCHES OF THE 

was felt among the students and in the vicinity through many forms 
of Christian work. 

Its anniversary is held on the Sabbath afternoon preceding 
Commencement, in the old chapel (now called Brainerd Hall), and 
consists of an address by the President of the Society, a report 
from the Secretary, giving an abstract' of the proceedings for the 
year, and addresses by returned missionaries and graduates of 
the Society. In the evening a sermon is delivered before this 
Society and (since 1874) the Society of the Christian Brotherhood.* 
' Among the members of the Brainerd Society who have been 
actively engaged in the Foreign Missionary work may be mentioned ; 
James B. Ramsey, class of '36, among the Choctaws; James G. 
Junkin, '38, Mexico; A. J. Collyrus, '43, Greece; John Bemo, 
(Nephew of Osceola), '43, among the Seminoles; Washington 
McDonogh, '43, Africa; John F. Wilson, '43, Africa; T. H. 
Newton, '46, West Indies; John S. Woodside, '46, India; G. W. 
Simpson, '46, Africa; Victor Herschell, '47, Jamaica; Ishwari Das 
(Adam), '48, India; Isidor Lowenthal, '48, India; R. H. Nassau, 
'49, Africa; Samuel R. Gayley, '53, China; C. R. Mills, '53, 
China; John Menaul, '65, Africa; L. W. Eckard, '66, China; R. 
Arthur, '68, Oscar J. Hardin, '68, Siam; Jas. T. Houston, '71, Brazil. 

THE CHRISTIAN BROTHERHOOD. 

In late years, and particularly at the time of the great revivals in 
1871 and 1873, large additions have been made to the number of 
professing Christians in the College, and there has been a felt need 
in this growing Christian community for a religious organization 
which should in some measure supply the place of a church as well 
as a Young Men's Christian Association. The Christian Brother- 
hood was organized in September, 1874, with this object in view. 
The following are the articles adopted at its organization : 

1. The Christian Brotherhood of Lafayette College hereby established under 
the authority of the Board of Trustees, is composed of members of the College 
who are in good and regular standing in any Evangelical church, and who sig- 
nify their willingness to join the organization by subscribing to the covenant. 

2. The Brotherhood has no authority to administer the sacraments, or to ex- 
ercise discipline over its members. Its design is first, to promote the higher 
Christian life among its members by a mutual watch and care, by praying with 
and for each other, and by living together in Christian love : and secondly, to 



* For the list of Annual Preachers, see page 65. 



HISTORY OF LAICAYETTE COLLEGE. 6^ 

advance the kingcloai of Christ in the hearts of others in every way that may be 
indicated by God's Providence. 

3. The details of the management are left to the President of the Faculty, and 
to a Board of Counselors, consisting of three students from each class, who shall 
be elected by the several classes the first Thursday evening of each session after 
Divine service. 

The daily prayer-meeting in Brainerd Hall, together with the 
various Stmday-schools and religious meetings in the vicinity, which 
were formerly carried on by the Missionary Society, now come 
tnore directly under the auspices of the Brotherhood. 

THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 

The Natural History Society of Lafayette College was organized 
by Professor Porter, April 6th, i86S. Its general aim is to encour- 
age and advance the study of nature in the College ; its particular 
aim, to explore the vicinity (a district comprised in a circle with 
a radius of twenty miles, having Pardee Hall as its centre), to 
collect specimens for a museum which shall present as full an 
exhibit as possible of the natural history of the district, to make 
maps for illustration, and to gather Indian relics. Acquisitions 
from abroad are also received. 

The meetings are held on alternate Friday evenings during term 
time, at which papers are read, topics discussed, lectures delivered, 
and donations for the library or collections received. Brief reports 
of these proceeding are published in the Lafayette College Journal. 
Its library already contains a number of valuable scientific works, 
and its large and rapidly increasing collections are most valuable as 
a turther means of instruction. 

The Society is constituted of active members elected by ballot 
from the professors, students and residents in the neighborhood 
who have at any former time been connected with the College ; and 
correspondents, consisting of old members who have removed to a 
distance, and others chosen by an honorary vote. The Professor 
of Botany and Zoology is President of the Society ex-officio. 

THE CHEMICAL SOCETY. 

The Lafayette Chemical Society was organized by Professor T. 
M. Drown in February, 1875. Its membership comprises the in- 
structors in the chemical department, and the students of the 



64, SKETCHES OF THE 

College interested in the study of chemistry. Its object is to sup- 
plement the regular work of College instruction and study in this 
department, by encouraging and aiding students in independent 
original research. The professor in charge of the laboratories aids 
the advanced students in conducting their investigations, and 
regular weekly meetings are held, at which the results are presented 
to the Society in the form of papers, and the subjects connected 
with them discussed by the members. Reports of these meetings 
are published in the Lafayette College Journal. During the Col- 
lege year 1875-' 76, fifteen such original papers were read by the 
students and assistants in the department, besides minor communi- 
cations of interest. The funds of the Society are expended solely 
for the purchase of books and periodicals. A valuable library of 
books of reference is thus rapidly accumulating. 

THE SOCIETY OF PHYSICS AND ENGINEERING. 

This Society has recently been organized by Prof. Moore. Its 
object is the discussion of subjects relating to these departments, 
but which cannot be fully discussed in the regular lectures and 
recitations of the classes. As soon as the enlargement of Jenks' 
Hall is completed, the Society will have a suitable hall for its 
meeting and extensive laboratories for original investigations in 
Physics, Applied Mechanics, etc. 

In addition to these Societies, there exists, among the students, 
a number of organizations ; some for physical exercise, as the boat- 
ing, base and foot-ball clubs, others for the cultivation of music, as 
the glee and quartette clubs, the College orchestra, ajid others of 
a mingled social and literary character, as the Greek Letter Socie- 
ties with affiliated branches in other colleges. 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



65 



ORATORS 
Before the Literary Societies. 



PREACHERS 
Before the Brainerd Society. 



1832. 

1833. 
1834. 

1835- 
1836. 

1837. 
1838. 
1839. 
1840. 
1 841. 
1842. 

1843. 
1844. 
1845. 
1846. 
1847. 
1848. 
1849. 
1850. 
1851. 
1852. 

1853- 
1854. 

1855- 
1856. 

1857. 
1858. 
1859. 
i860. 
18C1. 
1862. 
1863. 
1864. 
1865. 
1866. 
1867. 
1868. 
1869. 
1870. 
1871. 
1872. 
i'873. 
1874. 
1875. 



Hon. James M. Porter, LL.D. 
Hon. Joseph R. IngersoU. 
Hon. J. M. Scott. 
Hon. Geo. M. Dallas. 
William A. Rawle, Esq. 
Rev. Robt. J. Breckenridge, D. D. 
Hon. David Paul Brown. 
Rev. W. W. Phillips, D. D. 
Hon. John Banks. 
Hon. J. M. Mcjilton. 
Rev. George Junkin D. D. 
Hon. Wm. A. Porter. 
Levv^is C. Levin, Esq. 
Hon. J. Pringle Jones. 
Rev. Lewis W. Green, D. D. 
Rev. John M. Krebs, D. D. 
Rev. Joseph F. Berg, D. D. 
Rev. James Lewers. 
Rev. Robert Steel, D. D. 
Hon. Stacy G. Potts, LL.D. 
Rev. Symmes C. Henry, D. D. 
Rev. Gardiner Spring, D. D. 
Hon. Wm. H. Allen. 
Rev. R. Davidson, D. D. 
Hon. James Pollock, LL.D. 
Prof. John W. Fowler, LL.D. 
Prof. Chas. Murray McNaire. 
Hon. Daniel Dougherty. 
Hon. Wm. C. Alexander, LL.D. 
F. Carroll Brewster, Esq. 
Prof John S. Hart, LL.D. 
(No Commencement exercises.) 
Rev. Hugh S. Carpenter, D. D. 
Rev. James W\ Wood, 
Rev. Wm. S. Plumer, D. D. 
Hon, J. Morrison Harris. 
Hon. Galusha A. Grow. 
Hon. James Pollock, LL.D. 
Rev. Prof. Charles Elliott, D. D. 
Hon. Alexander K. McClure. 
Rev. James McCosh, D. D. 
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage, D. D. 
Hon. George M. Robeson. 
Rev. John Lord, D. D. 



Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 
Rev. 



B. C. Wolff. 
John Gray, D. D. 
Jacob Castner. 
George Junkin, D. D. 
John W. Yeomans, D. D. 
E. Cooley. 
John P. Hecht. 
Robert Steel, D. D. 
James Clarke, D. D. 
John W. Yeomans, D. D. 
James Lewers. 



Rev. J. H. A Bomberger, D, D. 
Rev. John McCronn, D. D. 

Rev. C. C. Jones, D. D. 



Rev. Matthew Allison. 
Rev. Alexander T. McGill, D.D. 
Rev. Henry S, Clark, D. D. 
Rev. J. T. Smith, D. D. 
Rev. N. Murray, D. D. 
Rev. W^m. S. Plumer, D. D. 
Rev. George W. Thompson, D. D. 
Rev. Wm. C. Cattell, D. D, 
Rev. James W. Dale, D. D. 
(No Commencement exercises.) 
Rev. Wm. P. Breed, D. D. 
Rev. George Junkin, D. D. 
Rev. Thomas Brainerd, D. D. 
Rev. T. H. Robinson, D. D. 
•Rev. A. E. E. Taylor, D. D. 
Rev. Alfred H. Kellogg. 
Rev. Prof, Robert Watts, D. D. 
Rev. S. A. Mutchmore, D. D. 
Rev. John Sparhawk Jones. 
Rev. A. A. Willits, D D. 
Rev. Frank L. Robbins, D. D. 
Rev. PL E. Niles, D.D. 



1^ 



SKETCHES OF THE 



Board of Trustees. 



PRESIDENTS. 



Hon. James M. Porter, LL.D., 
Rev. William Neill, D. D., 
Rev. David McKinney, D. D., 
Rev. Septimus Tustin, D. D., 
Rev. G. Wilson McPhail, D. D., 
Hon. James Pollock, LL.D., 



Term of OfRcS. 

1856-52 
i852-'53 
1853-57 
»857-'59 
1859-63 
1863 



MEMBERS 


OF THE E 


Gen. Robert Patterson, 


l826-'35 


John Hare Powel, 


i826-'35 


Peter A. Browne, 


l826-'49 


Gen. A. M. Prevost, 


i826-'49 


Benjamin Tilghman, 


l826-'49 


Silas E, Wier, 


l826-'33 


John M. Scott, 


1826-47 


Hon. Samuel Sitgreaves, 


i826-'27 


Col. Thomas McKeen, 


1826-52 


Peter Miller, 


i826-'35 


Philip Mixsell, 


1826-47 


Jacob Weygandt, 


l826-'45 


John Bowes, 


1826-47 


Hon. J. M. Porter, 


1826-52 


Col. C. J. Hutter, 


l826-'39 


Jacob Wagener, 


1826-43 


George M. Barnet, 


i826-'4i 


John Carey, 


l826-'37 


William Shouse, 


i826-'4i 


Hon. Peter Ihrie, 


i826-'37 


John Worman, 


l826-'42 


Hon. Joel Jones, 


l826-'52 


John R. Lattimore, 


i826-'37 


Thomas J. Rogers, 


i826-'32 


Dr. Joseph K- Swift, 


i826-'4i 


George G. Howell, 


i826-'35 


Hon. P. S. Michler, 


i826-'49 


Jesse M. Howell, 


i826-'37 


Philip H. Mattes, 


i826-'42 


Hon. George Hess, 


i826-'45 


Jacob Kern, 


i826-'37 


George Weber, 


i826-'47 



THE BOARD OP TRUSTEES. 

Anthony McCoy, l826-'51 

W. C. Livingston, l826-'35 

Hon. William Long, l826-'43 

His Exc'y, Geo. Wolf, l827-'40 

Hon. H. Hepburn, i832-'46 

Solomon Allen, i833-'46 

James Wilson, l835-'47 

Enoch Green, lS35-'51 

Joseph McElroy, D. D., i835-'49 

John Johnson, i835-'47 

H. A. Boardman, D. D., l837-'43 

Alexander Symington, l837-'48 

Dr. Traill Green, »837-'4l 

Abraham Beidleman, 1 837-' 43 

John J. Burke, J837-'S2 

Henry Hamman, l837-'44 

Rev. John P. Hecht, l839-'45 

John Gray, D. D., 1839-52 

J. W. Yeomans, D. D., 1841-52 

Robert Steel, D. D., l84i-'52 

Rev. John Dorrance, l84l-'6l 

Matthew L. Bevan, l842-'50 

Rev. William R. Smith, i842-'47 

Hon. Chas. Sitgreaves, i843-'53 

John M. Sherrerd, l843-'43 

Stacy G. Potts, 1 843-' 46 

Hon. R. S, Kennedy, l843-'53 

P. O. Studdiford, D. D, l843-'49 

Phineas B. Kennedy, l844-'4g 

George Junkin, D. D., l845-'4g 

S. M. Andrews, D. D., l845-'52 

Richard Green, 1 845- -'46 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



67 



William Hackett, 
John Dickson, 
Hon. Wm. A. Porter, 
John M. Krebs, D. D., 
James McKeen, 
Willis Lord, D. D., 
T. L. Janeway, D. D., 
Rev. S. M. Gayley, 
Hon. W. McCartney, 
Samuel Taylor, 
George W, Housel, 
Joseph Dawes, 
Hon. George Chambers, 
Rev. John McNair, 
William C. Lawson, 
Robert D. Morris, D. D., 
Hon. Ephraim Banks, 
Rev. David J. Waller, 
Robert Hamill, D. D., 
Septimus Tustin, D. D., 
David McKinney, D. D., 
Rev. J. H. Townley, 
William Neill, D. D., 
D. V. McLean, D. D., 
William S. Martien, 
Alfred Jenks, 
James McKeen, 
M. Hale Jones, 
Rev. W. H. Ruffner, 
Robert S. Clark, 
Rev. M. E. Johnston, 
S. M. Andrews, D. D., 
Michael C. Grier, 
Hon. John Ker, 
Rev. J. L. Rodgers, 
Gen. James Irvin, 
J. B. Spotswood, D. D., 
McEvers Forman, 
Gardiner Spring, D.D., 
George Douglass, Esq., 
Rev. S. M. Gayley, 
Saul McComiick, 
IL N. Wilson, D.D., 
H. Walton Fleming, 
Charles B. Dungan, 



1845-53 


Joseph McElroy, D. D., 


1854- 


'58 


1846-50 


Hon. James Kennedy, 


1854- 


•65 


1 846-' 63 


Rev, Robert McCachren, 


1854- 


'62 


1847-53 


His Exc'y> James Pollock, 


1855- 


— 


i847-'49 


John L. Janeway, D. D., 


1855- 


'64 


1847-52 


John Beveridge, 


1855- 


'61 


1847-52 


David Wilson, 


1855- 


'65 


1847-53 


Rev. John Leaman, M. D., 


1857- 


'65 


1847-52 


Rev. Samuel F. Colt, 


1857- 


— 


1847-52 


James N. Dickson, 


1857- 


'59 


1847-52 


Herman J. Lombaert, 


1857- 


'58 


1 848-' 5 2 


William P. Breed, D. D., 


1857- 


•65 


1 849-' 58 


Rev. John Squier, 


1857- 


'64 


1849-65 


G. W. McPhail, D. D., 


1859- 


'65 


1849 


A. H. Hand, D. D., 


1859- 


— 


1849-66 


J. Grier Ralston, LL.D., 


1860- 


'65 


1 849-' 5 8 


William C. Cattell, D. D., 


1861- 


— 


1849 


Col. J. Ross Snovvden, 


1861- 


— 


1849 


Jonathan Edwards, D. D., 


1861- 


'65 


1 849-' 7 1 


William C. Roberts, D. D., 


1861- 


'65 


1 849-' 5 7 


David J. Murphy, 


1861- 


'65 


i85c^'55 


Hon. Alexander Jordan, 


1S63- 


'66 


i85o-'6o 


Milo J. Hickok, D. D., 


1863- 


'74 


1 85 2-' 65 


Alfred Nevin, D. D., 


1863- 


'65 


i852-'6i 


Ario Pardee, 


1865- 


— 


i852-'54 


Alfred Martien, 


1865- 


— 


1852-71 


J. H. M. Knox, D. D., 


1865- 


— 


1852 


John F. McCoy, 


1S65- 


'75 


i852-'53 


Barton H. Jenks, 


1S65- 


'75 


i852-'58 


Thomas Beaver, 


1865- 


— 


i852-'54 


Joseph H. Scranton, 


1865- 


'72 


1852 


John W. Hollenback, 


1865- 


— 


i852-'63 


George W. Fahnestock, 


1865- 


'63 


i853-'56 


Hon. J. Morrison Harris, 


1865- 


'72 


i852-'56 


William Dorris, 


1865- 


— 


i852-'65 


Morris Patterson, 


1865- 


— 


i852-'66 


John Curwen, M. D., 


1865- 


— 


i852-'72 


William Adamson, 


1867- 


— 


i8S3-'6i 


Thomas Dickson, 


1S71- 


— 


1853-56 


Thomas L. McKeen, 


1871- 


— 


1853-63 


Gen. Robert Patterson, 


1874- 


— 


i853-'57 


Benjamin G. Clarke, 


1874- 


— 


1853-65 


C. Delano Wood, 


1874- 


— 


1853-56 


Hon. G. Dawson Coleman, 


1875- 


— 


1853-58 


Hon. A. G. Richey, 


1876- 


— 



68 SKETCHES OF THE 

Members of the Faculty. 



PRESIDENTS. 

Rev. George Junkin, D. D., 1832-41 

Rev. John W. Yeomans, D. D., 1841-44 

Rev. George Junkin, D. D., LL.D., i844-'48 

Rev. Charles W. Nassau, D. D., 1849-50 

Rev. Daniel V. McLean, D. D., i85o-'57 

Rev. George Wilson McPhail, D. D., i857-'63 

Rev. William C. Cattell, D. D., 1863 

VICE-PRESIDENTS. 

Rev. Charles W. Nassau, D. D., i848-'49 

Prof. James H. Coffin, LL.D., 1849-53 

Rev. George Burrowes, D. D., '853-55 

PROFESSORS. 
MENTAL AND MORAL PHILOSOPHY. 

In additio7i to the Presidents of the Faculty who have occupied this chair. 

Wash. McCartney, LL.D., i849-'52 Joseph Alden, D. D., LL.D., i853-'57 

MATAPHYSICS AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY. 

Rev. George Junkin, D. D., LL.D. (Emeritus), i865-'68 

MATHEMATICS. NATURAL PHILOSOPHY AND ASTRONOMY. 

Charles F. McCay, l832-'33 Alonzo Linn (Adjunct), i856-'57 

Samuel Galloway, 1834-35 Selden J. Coffin (Adjunct), 1865-73 

W. McCartney, LL.D., i835-'46 Selden J. Coffin, Ph. D., 1873 

Wm. H. Green (Adjunct), 1843-44 Joseph J. Hardy (Adjunct), 1874 

James H. Coffin, LL.D., i846-'73 

MECHANICS AND EXPERIMENTAL PHILOSOPHY. 

James W. Moore (Adjunct), 1868-72 James W. Moore, M. D., 1872 

BIBLICAL INSTRUCTION. 

Rev. George Burrows, D. D., l865-'69 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 69 

LATIN AND GREEK LANGUAGES. 

James I. Kuhn, l832-'37 Charles W. Nassau, D. D., i84i-'50 

Alfred Ryors (Adjunct), ^^3^-37 George Burrovves, D. D., i85o-'55 

David Moore (Adjunct), i837-'39 Wm. C. Cattell, D. D., i855-'6o 

Rev. Robert Cunningham, i837-'39 Lyman Coleman, D. D., i86i-'68 

S. T&cCulloh (Adjunct), 1839-40 R. B. Youngman (Adjunct), 1863-68 
James C. Moffat, D. D., 1839-41 

LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 

Rev. Lyman Coleman, D. D , 186S D. B. King (Adjunct), 1874 

W. Q. Scott (Adjunct), 1873-74 A. H. Caughcy (Adjunct), 1875 

GREEK LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE. 
Rev. R^ B. Youngman, 1868 

CHRISTIAN GREEK AND LATIN, 
Rev. Addison Ballard, D. U., 1874 Wm. B. Owen (Adjunct), 1874 

GERMAN LANGUAGE. 

Frederick A. Rauch, 1833-33 Isidor Lowenthal, l846-'47 

Frederick Schmidt, 1835-40 Rev. J. W. Richards, 1847-51 
Rev. John P. Hecht, i840-'45 

MODERN LANGUAGES. 

Rev. A Bloombergh, Ph. D., 1867 John Meigs (Adjunct), 1875 

GENERAL CHEMISTRY. 

Samuel D. Gross, M. D., i832-'34 E. Thompson Baird, iS45-'46 

Traill Green, M. D., i837-'4i Traill Green, M. D., LL.D., 1853 

David P. Yeomans, 1841-45 C. Mclntire, M. D., (Adjunct), i872-'74 

ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY. 
Thomas M. Drown, M. D., 1874 

NATURAL HISTORY. 
Rev. John Leaman, U. D,, i858-'65 Thomas C. Porter, D. D., 1866 

ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. 

Rev. John Leaman, M. D., 1865— — • 

MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY. 

Peter A. Browne, LL.D., 1837-47 R.W. Raymond, Ph. D.,(Lec- 

Charles H. Hitchcock, Ph. D., l865-'70 turer), 1870— 



70 SKETCHES OF THE 

BELLES-LETTRES AND ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
David X. Junkin, D. D., 1837-42 Francis A. March (Adjunct), i856'-57 



JURISPRUDENCE AND POLITICAL ECONOMY. 

Hon. James M. Porter, LL.D., l837-'52 

^ . f Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick, 1875 

M. Hale Jones, 1875 

^^S J Traill Green, M D., LL.D., 1875 

Francis A. March, LL.D., 1875 

Emery S. Barrick, LL.B., 1875 



u S 



ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND COMPARATIVE PHILOLOGY. 

Francis A. March, LL.D., 1857 

RHETORIC. 
Rev. James R. Eckard, D. D., i8s8-'7l Henry T. Lee (Adjunct), i865-'67 

RHETORIC AND ELOCUTION. 

E. Hubbard Barlow, 1870 

% 

PHYSICAL CULTURE. 
Henry T. Lee, 1865-67 E. Hubbard Barlow, 1870 

CIVIL AND TOPOGRAPHICAL ENGINEERING. 

Henry F. Walling, i867-'72 Robert Frazer, Jr., (Adjunct), l872-'73 

T. F. Tillinghast (Adjunct), iS7o-'72 Arthur L. Baker (Adjunct), 1873 

Joseph G. Fox, 1872 

MINING AND METALLURGY. 

Rev. H. S. Osborn, LL.D. i866-'70 Frederick Prime, Jr., 1870 

E. S. Moffat (Adjunct), 1 868-' 73 

MINING ENGINEERING AND GRAPHICS. 
Justus M. Silliman, 1870— 



HISTORY OF LAFAYETTE COLLEGE. 



71 



Wm. Henry Green, 
John Lloyd, 
Joseph Stevens, 
Ninian Bannatyne, 
Robert Newton, 
Joseph Junkin, 
Joseph E. Nassau, 
James T. Doran, 
Isidor Loewenthal, 
W, W. Cottingham, 
Wm. F. P. Noble, 
W, W. Cottingham, 
Isaac G. Ogden, 
Solon Albee, 
Arthur Mitchell, 
Alonzo Linn, 
Samuel R. Gayley, 
Francis A. March, 
Alexander Scott, 
Edsall Ferrier, 
Charles Corss, 
Henry T. Lee, 
R. B. Youngman, 



TUTORS. 

1841-42 M. N. Appleget, i863-'64 

l842-'42 Selden J. CofiTm, i864-'65 

l842-'43 Wm, Grove Meigs, i865-'66 

1843-43 James W. Moore, 1 866-' 68 

i843-'44 George T. Keller, i866-'69 

l844-'46 Benj. C, Youngman, l868-'69 

l846-'48 John Boyd Grier, l869-'72 

1 848-' 48 Walter Q. Scott, 1 869-' 73 

1848-48 Joseph J. Hardy, l870-'74 

1848-49 David J. Waller, Jr., i870-'7l 

i849-'5o David B. King, iS7i-'74 

1851-52 Wm. B. Owen, i87i-'74 

l852-'52 John Meigs, 1872-75 

1852-54 Jefferson Snyder, 1872-73 

1853-54 Francis W. Edgar, 1873-74 

1854-56 Charles E. Burns, 1873-74 

1855-55 John G. Diefenderfer, 1873 

1855-56 Nathaniel Taylor, l873-'74 

l856-'57 Wm. S. Sweeny, 1874 

1857-58 W. H. Schuyler, 1874 

l858-'6o Edgar Hart, 1875 

j86o-'6i J. R. Shimer, 1875 

l86o-'63 



